Ford is now known for cars, but in its long history it also has made airplanes and, for many decades, tractors. In fact, it pioneered mass tractor production.

Henry Ford created the Henry Ford & Son Company in November 1915 to develop and produce a farm tractor. In October 1917, the company began building 6,000 tractors for England and 1,000 for Canada to ...

Ford’s tractors helped mechanize farms for most of the twentieth century, turning the company’s blue oval into a familiar ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...

Ron Lamoly has spotted more than one tear while watching old farmers caress the body of Fordson tractors they thought long gone. They approach with reverence, running calloused hands, often scarred ...

Click here if you are unable to view this gallery on a mobile device. Henry Ford was a farm boy in Michigan. We all know of his automotive successes starting with the famous Model T Ford that put ...

Ford Motor Co.’s first Fordson tractor produced at the company’s Rouge manufacturing complex in Dearborn, Mich., comes off the assembly line on Feb. 23, 1921. Ford founder Henry Ford, who was born and ...

A man whose roots were from deep Cork farming stock, it is apt that Henry Ford’s new Irish factory became synonymous with tractor production during its first 15 years, writes John Dolan. The first ...