The Fordson tractor was first developed by Henry Ford's motor company in the USA in 1917 and thousands were imported to Britain during and immediately following the First World War. It was of light ...

Simple machines famed for the key role they played in food production during the lean years of the Second World War will be the star of the show when the UK’s largest outdoor vintage tractor festival ...

Henry Ford created the Henry Ford & Son Company in November 1915 to develop and produce a farm tractor. In October 1917, the company began building 6,000 tractors for England and 1,000 for Canada to ...

A keen collector of Fordson tractors, one of which dates back to 1924, is selling them off. Tony Fuller, of The Orchard Workshop, Risby, Welham Lane, Bury St Edmunds, has accumulated an array of ...

Launched in 1929 by the Ministry of Agriculture at the outbreak of WWII the Fordson Standard N tractors aim was to reduce reliance on imported food, which was vulnerable to German U-boat attacks that ...

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It began arriving at Fordson dealers throughout the United Kingdom in large numbers by the time the Second World War ended. Based closely on the Fordson Model N which in turn had small improvements ...

shift from horse to tractor power on British farms. This tractor was reputedly first registered in 1937/ 8. The accompanying instruction book was printed in 1933. It was purchased in unrestored ...

This Ford N Tractor was built in 1942 three years before the production of this model was stopped. It was instrumental in providing food crops for the country throughout the war on a farm in ...