Farm Tractors A Living History

Farm Tractors: A Living History Randy Leffingwell This vivid color history chronicles the innovative American tractors that shaped the modern farm. The technological development of farm power is traced from the back-breaking days of horse farming through the steam-powered iron beasts and on to the development of the internal combustion engine and the creation of the tractor as we know it today. Focus is placed on innovations such as the introduction of the styled tractor, Henry Fords revolutionary Fordson and Ford-Ferguson 9N, how the industry-standard Nebraska Tractor Tests began, and Allis-Chalmers experiments with and introduction of rubber-tired tractors. Hdbd., 9 1/4x 12 1/4, 24 pgs., 234 color ill.Leffingwell, Randy is the author of 'Farm Tractors A Living History' with ISBN 9780760300305 and ISBN 0760300305.