Record details

• ISBN: 1586630849
• ISBN: 9781586630843
• Physical Description: 112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm.
• Publisher: New York : MetroBooks, [2001]
• Copyright: ©2001

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 110) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1 Good Old Days 16 -- Horses and Draft Agriculture -- Steaming Up: The First Tractors -- Real Horsepower -- Chapter 2 Tractors Get Going 28 -- Tractor Is Born: The Hart-Parr -- Competition Heats Up -- J.I. Case Makes Its Case -- Fordson Blazes a Trail -- International Harvester's Farmall Does it All -- Birth of a Favorite: The John Deere Tractor -- Caterpillar and Cletrac -- Chapter 3 Hard Times and Tough Builders 54 -- Depression -- Farmall Gets an Overhaul -- Deere Redesigns -- Ford-Ferguson: The Model 9N Saves the Day -- U-DLX: A Machine Ahead of Its Time -- A New Color for Case -- Chapter 4 Tractors Meet the Future 72 -- Ford versus Ferguson -- "Small" Innovations from International Harvester -- Diesel Comes into Its Own -- Case Keeps Pace -- Farewell to Oliver -- Nothing Runs Like a Deere -- Golden Age Ends, a New Age Begins -- Chapter 5 New Life for Old Tractors 92 -- John Deere Collectibles -- Collecting Orchard Tractors -- Getting Started in Collecting -- Other Paths to Follow.

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Farm tractors > United States.
Antique and classic tractors.

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