This classic combination of Leffingwell best-sellers includes is a vivid color history that chronicles the innovative American tractors of John Deere, International Farmall, Case, Ford, Allis-Chalmers, Caterpillar, and Minneapolis-Moline. 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.
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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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This is a huge, gorgeous book for the money. In addition to information about every tractor in America, the machines are presented in large, beautiful, color photos. The way the author tells it, the history of the tractor plays a big part in the history of this country, and it makes for good reading even if you are not a tractor enthusiast.
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OTTO VON GUERICKE LAUNCHED THE world into self-propelled motion roughly 350 years ago in Germany. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pulley horsepower, drawbar horsepower, track clutches, belt horsepower, tractor makers, tractor manufacture, steam traction engines, rear tread width, plow company, engine displaced, pneumatic rubber tires, tractor market, rear drive wheels, tractor company, gas tractor, first tractor, road gear, smaller tractors, series tractors, gasoline tractors, tractor production, tractor sales, draft control, crawler tractors, horsepower hours Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International Harvester, University of Nebraska, Deere Model, Henry Ford, Case Model, Harry Ferguson, Farmall Model, Ford Model, North America, Caterpillar Model, Fred Heidrick, New York, Waterloo Boy, Allis-Chalmers Model, Twin City, Ben Holt, United Kingdom, Henry Dreyfuss, Oliver Hart-Parr Model, Charles City, Palmer Fossum, Sieve Grip, Cleveland Tractor, Daniel Best, Ford Motor Company New!
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OTTO VON GUERICKE LAUNCHED THE world into self-propelled motion roughly 350 years ago in Germany. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pulley horsepower, drawbar horsepower, track clutches, belt horsepower, tractor makers, tractor manufacture, steam traction engines, rear tread width, plow company, engine displaced, pneumatic rubber tires, tractor market, rear drive wheels, tractor company, gas tractor, first tractor, road gear, smaller tractors, series tractors, gasoline tractors, tractor production, tractor sales, draft control, crawler tractors, horsepower hours Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International Harvester, University of Nebraska, Deere Model, Henry Ford, Case Model, Harry Ferguson, Farmall Model, Ford Model, North America, Caterpillar Model, Fred Heidrick, New York, Waterloo Boy, Allis-Chalmers Model, Twin City, Ben Holt, United Kingdom, Henry Dreyfuss, Oliver Hart-Parr Model, Charles City, Palmer Fossum, Sieve Grip, Cleveland Tractor, Daniel Best, Ford Motor Company New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 4
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- My Life by Josephine Shannon Ferguson on page 184
- My Forty Years With Ford (Great Lakes Books) by Charles E. Sorensen on page 191
- Farm Tractors (Enthusiast Color) by Randy Leffingwell in Front Matter
- My Life and Work by Samuel Crowther on page 184
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