Skagit Steel MAC Fordson unit operated on a pole road by Scott Brothers logging company of Concrete, WA circa early 1920s.

thanks Steve!and Steve found that it's still aro...

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the Nattrass Rail Tractor, made in New Zealand by a race car driver, car salesman, and inventor Harold Nattrass, winning driver of the 1921 New Zealand Motor Cup

http://www.freerails.com/view_topic.php?id=6070&forum_id=46http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39905/first-new-zealand-motor-cup-race-1921In November 1924 Nattrass was granted a patent for his...

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Fordson tractors, and the caterpillar track adapter, the Trackson

Allright ever heard this one? The reason it's called a Fordson is from the Henry Ford and Son Inc companyFounded by Henry Ford in 1917, the firm merged with the Ford Motor Co. in 1920. The Fordson name...

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Brian says that all Ford dealerships were forced to sell tractors even if they were in a city location, resulting in many being modified for city service with snow plows or paving equipment! Hemmings agrees

a very interesting analysis of the introduction of mechanization and it's role in bringing about the great depression is at  http://www.middle-america.com/wp/tag/fordson/No, Ford had little to do...

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an ice scraper in 1925, a Fordson tractor

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