Original ads, historic design drawings, and factory photographs tell the definitive story of the tractor's development, mechanical innovations, groundbreaking designs, and company histories. Best-selling author Randy Leffingwell researched and photographed restored classics and one-of-a-kind experimental models from coast-to-coast to deliver the goods on American farm tractor history and farming. Filled with famous tractors from John Deere, Ford and Ferguson, I-H, and Minneapolis-Moline, as well as lesser known makes from McCormick-Deering, Fairbanks & Morse, and countless others.
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RAndy Leffingwell is an MBI best-selling author whose most recent works are Corvette fifty Years, Mustang Forty Years, and John Deere: A History of the Tractor. He resides in Santa Barbara, California.
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The History Of Tractors With Great Photographs,
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This review is from: American Farm Tractor (Hardcover)
This is a nice book for persons involved in farming and tractors. It is an attractive large-size full-color book that is an excellent coffee table book. If you have been involved with tractors over the years, you will certainly enjoy this book's look back on the American Farm Tractors over the years.
Barnes & Noble republished this book in 2002 with the very same cover. Whether you locate the original 1991 edition or the more recent 2002 edition you will have essentially the same book.
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This book will definately be a "keeper".,
By "big_duke_fan" (Wilkesboro, NC United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Farm Tractor (Hardcover)
Bought for my husband for Christmas since he comes from a few generations of tractor owners this book was the perfect gift for him to gather his son on his lap and share stories and pictures. We wish it had more pictures of more classic oldies. The brief histories given on the pictured tractors are pretty good though. I bought this book second hand, in great condition and plan on saving to give to our son when he has children so he can pass along the stories.
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Good Book for tractor enthusiast!,
By Meagan K. "Meagan" (New Virginia, IA USA) - See all my reviews
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Good Book for tractor enthusiast! Bought this for my father in law for Christmas. He loved it. Lots of neat stuff to look at! Highly recommend for the tractor lover in your family!
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The history of farm tractors in American is one of cycles repeated: droughts and crop failures giving way to booms and overproduction giving way to wars and recessions; lower horsepower and smaller tractors giving way to higher horsepower and larger machines. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agricultural machinery collection, lightweight tractor, tractor makers, tractor market, tractor business, steering clutches, steam traction engines, plow company, smaller tractors, tractor production, gas tractor, tractor sales, first tractor, tractor company, plow works, new tractor, draft control, small tractor, implement company Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International Harvester, Henry Ford, United States, Harry Ferguson, John Deere, Waterloo Boy, Minneapolis Threshing, Moline Plow, Minneapolis Steel, Twin City, University of Nebraska, Old Reliable, Palmer Fossum, Philip Rose, General Motors, Black Book, Charles Deere, Gas Traction Company, New York, United Kingdom, White Farm Equipment, Case Plow Works, Ford Motor Company, Ford's Fordson, Handshake Agreement New!
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The history of farm tractors in American is one of cycles repeated: droughts and crop failures giving way to booms and overproduction giving way to wars and recessions; lower horsepower and smaller tractors giving way to higher horsepower and larger machines. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agricultural machinery collection, lightweight tractor, tractor makers, tractor market, tractor business, steering clutches, steam traction engines, plow company, smaller tractors, tractor production, gas tractor, tractor sales, first tractor, tractor company, plow works, new tractor, draft control, small tractor, implement company Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International Harvester, Henry Ford, United States, Harry Ferguson, John Deere, Waterloo Boy, Minneapolis Threshing, Moline Plow, Minneapolis Steel, Twin City, University of Nebraska, Old Reliable, Palmer Fossum, Philip Rose, General Motors, Black Book, Charles Deere, Gas Traction Company, New York, United Kingdom, White Farm Equipment, Case Plow Works, Ford Motor Company, Ford's Fordson, Handshake Agreement New!
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- Century of the Reaper by Cyrus McCormick on page 93, page 96, and page 101
- Harry Ferguson Inventor and Pioneer by Colin Fraser on page 113, and page 138
- Henry Ford (People We Should Know) by Jonatha A. Brown on page 119, and page 126
- My Forty Years with Ford (Great Lakes Books) by Charles E. Sorensen on page 111
- My Life and Work by Samuel Crowther on page 109
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- Regulation and the Revolution in United States Farm Productivity (Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century) by Sally H. Clarke on 7 pages
- Letters From Joe by Jim Morrison in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Tractor Trilogy by Roger Welsch on page 128, and page 164
- Ford Tractor Data Book: Fordson to the Hundred Series by Jeff Creighton on page 119, and Back Matter
- Great American Tractors: John Deere, Farmall and Ford by Robert N. Pripps on page 119, and page 155
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