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This is the first book in a new series which takes a fresh look at some of the best known names in agricultural engineering in the last century. The story of Harry Ferguson and his tractors is told in an entertaining and informative way by the leading tractor expert, Allan T. Condie, who has been researching the subject over the last quarter of a century.
Harry Ferguson was, by any consideration, a remarkable man. A son of the soil, one of eleven children raised on a farm in the north of Ireland, his name has become synonymous with the mechanisation of agriculture in the last century.
The ferguson system which he invented, by transferring the weight of the implement on to the tractor, made it part of the tractor rather than a separate item which it merely drew.
In this book, Ferguson's career and the different tractors which he produced in Europe and the USA, are examined in detail. The sometimes complex story of Ferguson's relations with business partners like Henry Ford and the Standard Motor Company, is described and the tractors themselves are portrayed in a mixture of archive photographs and illustrations and contemporary colour images.
Code No. 009658, 96 pages, ISBN 0711028265, $55.00