Online Catalogue last updated 15th of September 2008
What were the most significant tractors ever produced? That question is the basis for Farm Tractor Milestones. Author Randy Leffingwell and researcher Guy Fay poured their hearts and souls into selecting 36 tractors that changed the face of agriculture. The result is a unique, stunningly illustrated book that offers fresh insight on these hallmark machine of agriculture.
Farm Tractor Milestones tells the tales of the engineers, designers, and visionaries who created these innovative machines, often in the face of overwhelming adversity. The story of the Allis-Chalmers Model G begins with a letter from an innovative engineer who writes, "I may get shot for saying this, but ..." His letter outlines the design of the G, a machine so well suited to its intended task that it (or copies of it) was produced for more than half a century.
This book shines new light on the defining stories of agricultural machinery: Bert Benjamin's development of the Farmall, the battles involved at Deere & Co. to build four and six-cylinder New Generation tractors, and Henry Ford's crusade to put his Fordson within the grasp of the average man. The tales of the machines that brought other important changes are also chronicled: the innovative 1930 Massey-Harris four wheel drive, the revolutionary but unsuccessful Minne-Mo Uni-Harvestor, and the first turbo-diesel, the 1961 Allis-Chalmers D-19.
Whatever colour you bleed - be it John Deere green or Persian Orange - Farm Tractor Milestones offers an engaging, cross-brand look at the evolution of the farm tractor.
More than 170 alluring colour photographs and an engaging, insightful text, this hardbound book offers a unique slice of tractor history.
Code No. 009253, 160 pages, ISBN 076030730X, $40.00