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- Fordson Tractor Loading Logs with Double Drum Hoist at L'Anse, Michigan, 1926 - In 1919, Henry Ford began buying vast amounts of forestland in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. These prime hardwood forests supplied the lumber used to create vehicle bodies and parts. Other products such as railroad ties, shipping containers and chemical byproducts were also made -- all to support Ford's automobile operations and his goal of manufacturing self-sufficiency.
- February 16, 1926
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Fordson Tractor Loading Logs with Double Drum Hoist at L'Anse, Michigan, 1926
In 1919, Henry Ford began buying vast amounts of forestland in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. These prime hardwood forests supplied the lumber used to create vehicle bodies and parts. Other products such as railroad ties, shipping containers and chemical byproducts were also made -- all to support Ford's automobile operations and his goal of manufacturing self-sufficiency.
- First Fordson Tractor Built at the Ford Motor Company St. Louis Assembly Plant, September 2, 1920 -
- February 09, 1920
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First Fordson Tractor Built at the Ford Motor Company St. Louis Assembly Plant, September 2, 1920
- Aerial View of the Fordson Tractor Plant, Dearborn, Michigan, 1918 -
- October 22, 1918
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Aerial View of the Fordson Tractor Plant, Dearborn, Michigan, 1918
- Fordson Tractors on Board SS Kerhonkson, Ford Plant at Cork, Ireland, May 1929 - Henry Ford formed an Irish subsidiary company, Henry Ford & Son Limited, in 1917. He opened a tractor plant in County Cork, Ireland, two years later. The factory soon began building components for Ford automobiles, and tractor production ceased in 1922. Tractors returned to the factory's product output in 1929, but the Depression ended Cork tractor production for good in 1932.
- May 30, 1929
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Fordson Tractors on Board SS Kerhonkson, Ford Plant at Cork, Ireland, May 1929
Henry Ford formed an Irish subsidiary company, Henry Ford & Son Limited, in 1917. He opened a tractor plant in County Cork, Ireland, two years later. The factory soon began building components for Ford automobiles, and tractor production ceased in 1922. Tractors returned to the factory's product output in 1929, but the Depression ended Cork tractor production for good in 1932.
- Tractors for Shipment on the SS Falkenstein, Ford Plant at Cork, Ireland, August 1929 - Henry Ford formed an Irish subsidiary company, Henry Ford & Son Limited, in 1917. He opened a tractor plant in County Cork, Ireland, two years later. The factory soon began building components for Ford automobiles, and tractor production ceased in 1922. Tractors returned to the factory's product output in 1929, but the Depression ended Cork tractor production for good in 1932.
- August 07, 1929
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Tractors for Shipment on the SS Falkenstein, Ford Plant at Cork, Ireland, August 1929
Henry Ford formed an Irish subsidiary company, Henry Ford & Son Limited, in 1917. He opened a tractor plant in County Cork, Ireland, two years later. The factory soon began building components for Ford automobiles, and tractor production ceased in 1922. Tractors returned to the factory's product output in 1929, but the Depression ended Cork tractor production for good in 1932.
- Employees with the 4,000,000th Ford Tractor and a Fordson Tractor at the Highland Park Plant, 1972 -
- 1972
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Employees with the 4,000,000th Ford Tractor and a Fordson Tractor at the Highland Park Plant, 1972
- Fordson Tractor Repair Class, Russia, 1926 - In 1926, Ford Motor Company sent a team of experts to Russia, at the request of the Soviet government, to advise on the continued maintenance of some 25,000 Fordson tractors imported there since 1920. The Ford team spent four months touring the country, training Soviet technicians and evaluating possibilities for Ford factories in Russia.
- 1926
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Fordson Tractor Repair Class, Russia, 1926
In 1926, Ford Motor Company sent a team of experts to Russia, at the request of the Soviet government, to advise on the continued maintenance of some 25,000 Fordson tractors imported there since 1920. The Ford team spent four months touring the country, training Soviet technicians and evaluating possibilities for Ford factories in Russia.
- Luther Burbank on a Fordson Model F Tractor, 1918 -
- 1918
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Luther Burbank on a Fordson Model F Tractor, 1918
- Ford and Fordson Power Exposition Caravan and Radio Truck, Seaside, Oregon, 1922 -
- August 1922 - October 1922
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Ford and Fordson Power Exposition Caravan and Radio Truck, Seaside, Oregon, 1922
- Experimental Fordson Tractor, 1917 -
- July 28, 1917
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Experimental Fordson Tractor, 1917