Fordson tractor
Fordson was the brand by Henry Ford & Son, a company founded by Henry Ford in addition to the Ford Motor Company company to manufacture tractors.
Raised in agriculture Ford had made automobiles by Production Line to cheaper mass-produced and experimented since 1905 with designs for the same tractors, met with his former business partners but continued resistance to invest in this new market. From the summer of 1910 he was at his own cost six technicians work in a rented barn on the project. In February 1913, he purchased a commercial plot at his residence Dearborn. In February 1916 it the Ford Motor Company transferred to nearly $ 50,000, all rights they may have to tractors. Henry Ford had produced five or six last prototype that had a bearing drive train as a special feature instead of a frame and were tested on the farms of the Fords. In August 1916, he founded with Edsel Ford in Dearborn, the company Henry Ford & Son, was preparing for the end of the year with nearly 300 employees on the series production. Was put on the market, the 2.6 m long and 5.5 ton Model F with four-cylinder engine and 21 hp.
In January 1917 the representative of the Ford Motor Company bought a plot of land in the UK in Cork, Ireland to build a tractor manufacturing in support of the British Agriculture in the First World War. In April 1917, Henry Ford & Son Limited was founded in the UK, but soon it became clear that no labor for the production of tractors were dispensable, so that the factory in Cork began to manufacture only in July 1919. Backup has been agreed upon in June 1917 with the British Government to deliver 6,000 tractors until February 1918 Dearborn. At the end of 1917, Henry Ford & Son was established and started to provide them with the lettering only 254 Fordson tractors. In April 1918, the delivery to the United Kingdom, including 1,000 nachbestellter tractors for Canada was completed. In June 1918 established the factory about 5,000 tractors, and later there were over 10,000 tractors in a month.
Henry Ford concluded similar agreements such as the United Kingdom, with many state of the United States. The government bought large quantities at low unit prices and sold them to farmers. The Soviet Union bought about 25,000 Fordsons and built it after.
In July 1919, the Ford family, Ford Motor Company took over completely, verleibte her the tractor business, and dissolved Henry Ford & Son in July 1920.
By the year 1928 Fordsons were produced in the U.S. and sold over 700,000 copies. After that day about 300 copies were made in Cork continue. Ultimately, the production was moved to Dagenham in England, where they continued through the Second World War through. Parallel was the Ford N-series.
Known representatives of Fordson series: