Online Catalogue last updated 15th of September 2008
No tractor has achieved a more iconic status than John Deere. Its simple, two-cylinder tractors proved just the reliable, dependable tool that the early twentieth century American farmer needed to take the great leap from farming with animals to mechanized farming. Although a late comer to the motorized farming industry, today John Deere's two-cylinder tractors are the most sought after collector tractors in the world.
Always a conservative company, John Deere stuck with its two-cylinder tractors into the middle part of the century, long after every other manufacturer had moved on to four- and six-cylinder tractors. Yet these simple, noble machines continued to serve their market.
When John Deere entered the multi-cylinder fray, it did so with the most advanced, ground breaking machines ever built-the New Generation tractors. These tractors set the trends for all subsequent tractor development through the latter half of the twentieth century.
Today John Deere stands alone as the last of the great American independent ag manufacturers. Yet it is still going strong, still setting trends, and still building the icons of the future. John Deere is a gorgeously photographed, thoughtfully researched chronicle covering more than 150 years of Deere and Company innovation.
Randy Leffingwell is Motorbooks International's best-selling author and a top-flight photographer. He has written and photographed more than two dozen books on topics ranging from tractors to motorcycles and cars. Leffingwell resides in Santa Barbara, California.
Code No. 011928, 383 pages, ISBN 0760326770, $45.00