Author: Randy Leffingwell
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760313701
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Original ads, historic design drawings, and factory photographs tell the definitive story of the American 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. This is the book that started it all! Previous hardcover edition (0-87938-532-4 pub 1991) has sold a staggering 150,000!
The American Farm Tractor
Author: Randy Leffingwell
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760313701
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Original ads, historic design drawings, and factory photographs tell the definitive story of the American 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. This is the book that started it all! Previous hardcover edition (0-87938-532-4 pub 1991) has sold a staggering 150,000!
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760313701
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Original ads, historic design drawings, and factory photographs tell the definitive story of the American 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. This is the book that started it all! Previous hardcover edition (0-87938-532-4 pub 1991) has sold a staggering 150,000!
American Tractor Stories
Author: Dr. Graeme R. Quick
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479767395
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Let the Good Book have the final word: “Young people, enjoy life while you can. Be happy and let your heart bubble over with joy. Follow your heart’s desire, but remember that every deed has its consequences either good or bad, for God will one day judge everything you have done. Don’t do things that will he hurt you, because you’re not young very long. Old age will come soon enough. Remember your Creator while you’re still young and enjoy your youth.” - Ecclesiastes 11:9 to 12:1.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479767395
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Let the Good Book have the final word: “Young people, enjoy life while you can. Be happy and let your heart bubble over with joy. Follow your heart’s desire, but remember that every deed has its consequences either good or bad, for God will one day judge everything you have done. Don’t do things that will he hurt you, because you’re not young very long. Old age will come soon enough. Remember your Creator while you’re still young and enjoy your youth.” - Ecclesiastes 11:9 to 12:1.
Great American Tractors
Author: Robert N. Pripps
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Relates the history of the tractor and shows the changes in design that have resulted in the diesel-powered giants of today.
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Relates the history of the tractor and shows the changes in design that have resulted in the diesel-powered giants of today.
Tractor Wars
Author: Neil Dahlstrom
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1637740085
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Mr. Dahlstrom...has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered." —Wall Street Journal Discover the untold story of the “tractor wars,” the twenty-year period that introduced power farming—the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years. Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. From 1908-1928, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, these brands were engaged in a race to introduce the tractor and revolutionize farming. By the turn of the twentieth century, four million people had left rural America and moved to cities, leaving the nation’s farms shorthanded for the work of plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and threshing. That’s why the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as man’s landing on the moon or the advent of the internet—after all, with the tractor, a shrinking farm population could still feed a growing world. But getting the tractor from the boardroom to the drafting table, then from factory and the farm, was a technological and competitive battle that until now, has never been fully told. A researcher, historian, and writer, Neil Dahlstrom has spent decades in the corporate archives at John Deere. In Tractor Wars, Dahlstrom offers an insider’s view of a story that entwines a myriad of brands and characters, stakes and plots: the Reverend Daniel Hartsough, a pastor turned tractor designer; Alexander Legge, the eventual president of International Harvester, a former cowboy who took on Henry Ford; William Butterworth and the oft-at-odds leadership team at John Deere that partnered with the enigmatic Ford but planned for his ultimate failure. With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture—a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world.
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1637740085
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Mr. Dahlstrom...has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered." —Wall Street Journal Discover the untold story of the “tractor wars,” the twenty-year period that introduced power farming—the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years. Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. From 1908-1928, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, these brands were engaged in a race to introduce the tractor and revolutionize farming. By the turn of the twentieth century, four million people had left rural America and moved to cities, leaving the nation’s farms shorthanded for the work of plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and threshing. That’s why the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as man’s landing on the moon or the advent of the internet—after all, with the tractor, a shrinking farm population could still feed a growing world. But getting the tractor from the boardroom to the drafting table, then from factory and the farm, was a technological and competitive battle that until now, has never been fully told. A researcher, historian, and writer, Neil Dahlstrom has spent decades in the corporate archives at John Deere. In Tractor Wars, Dahlstrom offers an insider’s view of a story that entwines a myriad of brands and characters, stakes and plots: the Reverend Daniel Hartsough, a pastor turned tractor designer; Alexander Legge, the eventual president of International Harvester, a former cowboy who took on Henry Ford; William Butterworth and the oft-at-odds leadership team at John Deere that partnered with the enigmatic Ford but planned for his ultimate failure. With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture—a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world.
Terrible Tractors of Texas
Author: Johnathan Rand
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756935467
Category : Agricultural machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Jake and John's experimental tractor fuel brings Texan tractors to life. American Chillers series.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756935467
Category : Agricultural machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Jake and John's experimental tractor fuel brings Texan tractors to life. American Chillers series.
Driving My Tractor
Author: Jan Dobbins
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782854754
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Chug along with a farmer and his tractor on this multi-season animal adventure! A busy farmer picks up fifteen animals along his route, but when his trailer hits a stone, chaos ensues. This colorful book combines simple counting instruction with humor, repetition and rhythm to encourage learning fun. Book with CD edition includes song sung by acclaimed children’s performer SteveSongs.
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782854754
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Chug along with a farmer and his tractor on this multi-season animal adventure! A busy farmer picks up fifteen animals along his route, but when his trailer hits a stone, chaos ensues. This colorful book combines simple counting instruction with humor, repetition and rhythm to encourage learning fun. Book with CD edition includes song sung by acclaimed children’s performer SteveSongs.
American Steam Tractors
Author: Patrick W. Ertel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760300978
Category : Farm tractors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A beautiful, full-color book devoted to the granddaddy of today's tractors -- the steam behemoths that worked the fields in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Steam manufacturers, including Case and Caterpillar, are fully covered.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760300978
Category : Farm tractors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A beautiful, full-color book devoted to the granddaddy of today's tractors -- the steam behemoths that worked the fields in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Steam manufacturers, including Case and Caterpillar, are fully covered.
Ford Tractor Story
Author: Stuart Gibbard
Publisher: Old Pond Publishing
ISBN: 9780953365166
Category : Farm tractors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1964 Ford replaced its separate British and American tractor lines with the new 6X range, a "worldwide" family of tractors designed for manufacture in Basildon, Antwerp and the USA. It marked the beginning of an exciting new period in the history of Ford tractors. The next 30 years saw a host of new models and features as the line expanded and evolved towards the machines of the late 1990s with their computer-age technology. It was also a time during which Ford's agricultural business grew into an organization of global proportions, taking over both the New Holland and Versatile equipment companies. In 1994, Fiat acquired Ford's agricultural machinery interests and merged them with Fiatagri to form a new company under the New Holland name. In the late 1990s, New Holland is the leading manufacturer in Europe and many of the World's markets. In this book, the companion to the first part, the author gives an account of all the main Ford and New Holland models as well as the company changes and the personalities involved. It provides a comprehensive resource on this period of tractor history.
Publisher: Old Pond Publishing
ISBN: 9780953365166
Category : Farm tractors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1964 Ford replaced its separate British and American tractor lines with the new 6X range, a "worldwide" family of tractors designed for manufacture in Basildon, Antwerp and the USA. It marked the beginning of an exciting new period in the history of Ford tractors. The next 30 years saw a host of new models and features as the line expanded and evolved towards the machines of the late 1990s with their computer-age technology. It was also a time during which Ford's agricultural business grew into an organization of global proportions, taking over both the New Holland and Versatile equipment companies. In 1994, Fiat acquired Ford's agricultural machinery interests and merged them with Fiatagri to form a new company under the New Holland name. In the late 1990s, New Holland is the leading manufacturer in Europe and many of the World's markets. In this book, the companion to the first part, the author gives an account of all the main Ford and New Holland models as well as the company changes and the personalities involved. It provides a comprehensive resource on this period of tractor history.
The Gobble Gobble Moooooo
Author: Jez Alborough
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007317271
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
While Farmer Dougal is sleeping, Sheep convinces the other farm animals to take a ride on his tractor and imitate the different noises that it makes.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007317271
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
While Farmer Dougal is sleeping, Sheep convinces the other farm animals to take a ride on his tractor and imitate the different noises that it makes.
Jack Tractor
Author: Keren Ludlow
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780517709115
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Five more stories about Benny, the kindly tow truck from Smallbills Garage, and his owner Mike McCannick.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780517709115
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Five more stories about Benny, the kindly tow truck from Smallbills Garage, and his owner Mike McCannick.