It was the Chatgpt of its day. “Come and see the tractors”, entreated an article in the Prairie Farmer in 1915, advertising a trade show in Illinois showing off the new tech. “It will mark a new epoch ...
Between 1929 and 1959, tractor makers battled for position as the industry improved on new designs. From 1929 through 1959, the tractor industry changed focus. Rather than pioneering the idea of ...
In the late 1950s, a wave of European tractors that included the names David Brown (England), Someca (France), Porsche and Holder (Germany), and Zetor (Czechoslovakia) hit U.S. shores trying to cash ...
Alan Taggart still hears the ghosts of Detroit engines that beat the air to death between a roar and a scream on his farmland, powering eight tractors at the vanguard of the four-wheel drive era.