Word: tractored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to see the tractor, The marvelous tractor of Sanare...
...Southampton one day last week sailed a cargo of six knocked-down British tractors, bound for India. Their builder, David Brown, 50, Britain's third biggest maker of tractors (after Harry Ferguson and Ford), had stolen a march on competitors. Instead of trying to hurdle India's import barriers on foreign goods, he had signed a deal with Bombay's locally owned Mahindra-Mahindra plant to assemble and sell his machines. After the tractors, Brown dispatched a team of instructor technicians to set up a tractor school in India. Before long, he hopes to have Mahindra-Mahindra...
...Fast Track. Brown's ideas paid off. When the government tried to stop his tractor-making during the war so that he could concentrate on making gears for the military, he persuaded it that tractors were essential, too, and kept on expanding. At war's end, with U.S. tractor imports restricted by the dollar shortage, he grabbed the opportunity, got the materials he needed to continue expanding...
Brown now sells abroad fully three-fourths of his present tractor production of 8,000 a year. Out of the profits, he bought up the sickly Aston Martin Ltd., and began designing, in 1947, the sleek, swift "DB" (for David Brown) sports cars, which were soon winning many a British and European trophy. Brown turned each year's racing model into the following year's production model, also produced a luxurious, saloon-type car (the Lagonda). Although production is limited (about ten a week) and the cars are virtually handmade, they have earned Brown plenty of prestige...
...county point-to-point races on the thoroughbreds he raises on his 700-acre farm, Chequers Manor, near London. A licensed pilot, he often flies his own plane on business trips. In his hunt for new markets all over the globe, he has found he can ship British tractors through the Panama Canal cheaply enough to compete with Midwest tractor makers for California sales. Says he: "We wouldn't try to sell in the Midwest, because those farmers are like our Yorkshiremen-inclined to distrust a product they don't know. Californians are willing to try something...