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rray · Jun 13, 2014

Skip about half way through this video
https://archive.org/details/HorselessFarming1917

Steve@Advance · Jun 13, 2014

Could this have been the worlds first infomercial?

Sold me on it!

Dachshund · Jun 13, 2014

That is actually a tractor built by the "Ford Tractor Company" of Minneapolis, MN. It has ZERO connection with Henry Ford. It's the main reason the Nebraska Tractor Test Lab was started at UNL.

rray · Jun 14, 2014

Are there any of these left around?

Dachshund · Jun 14, 2014

There is one at the Larson Test Museum - UNL
(Lincoln, NE). It MIGHT be a replica, I am not
sure.....

Dr. Walt · Jun 17, 2014

Ford Model B

The Minneapolis based Ford Tractor Company hired Paul Ford as a designer solely for the sake of using his name. This clever ruse fooled many people into believing that the tractor was a product of the biggest car maker in America, Henry Ford. The unreliability of the machine so angered the Nebraska farmer and member of the State Legislature, Wilmont Crozier, that it became his personal crusade to push the famous Nebraska Tractor Testing into existence, virtually eliminating any less-than-honest tractor companies.

A 1916 Ford Model B sold for $14,500. in 1998 .

** Quoted from:
Antique American Tractor and Crawler Value Guide - by: Terry Dean & Larry L. Swenson - ISBN # 0-7603-0976-0

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