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...That the tractor is as simple as a motorcar, can be maintained by any farm hand, operated by any schoolboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Historic Furrow | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...That it will plow, harrow, drag a seeder, pull a wagon better than any tractor ever made, far better than a horse which is, as Thomas Edison said, "the poorest motor ever built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Historic Furrow | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...This tractor is peculiarly Henry Ford's personal baby. It is his solution of his favorite problem: how to get people back to the farms. More extraordinary than the known facts about it were the claims that Henry Ford, usually far from boastful, made for it last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Historic Furrow | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...That when the plough hits a rock or stump the tractor will not tip over backward and fall on its driver like some old-time tractors-it slips its back-wheel drive when an obstruction is encountered, keeps its nose down by pulling with its front wheels only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Historic Furrow | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Builder of the tractor was an Irishman named Harry Ferguson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Historic Furrow | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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