Talk:Fordson tractor

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Hi All, I have ridden the old Fordson for many hours. The paragraphs I have added may be a bit non-encyclopedic, but it is s shame for younger people not to know an imtimate bit about the old tractor. Phil 20:25, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

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"The Fordson tractor by the Ford Motor Company was the first agricultural tractor to be mass produced."

Is a misleading sentance. Fordson, although found by Henry Ford, was not an entity of the Ford Motor Company. The Fordson name was selected for two reasons. There was already a Ford Tractor Company in Minneapolis at the time, and the Ford Motor Company shareholders did not approve of tractor production. So Henry established an entirely new firm, Ford & Son Inc., which was shortened to Fordson. In 1930 Henry Ford built the 9N with the Ferguson three point hitch, which became the industry standard, making it the first Henry Ford built tractor with the Ford name, but Fordson remained a seperate firm being manufactured in England. In 1961 the Ford and Fordson merged, bringing an end to the Fordson name. Enigma 17:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

In English, it is not interested et i have dont understand English