Posted by 2 Old 2 Care on December 01, 2013 at 08:08:42 from (74.142.63.198):
In Reply to: Vhat if? posted by Harvey2 on November 30, 2013 at 15:59:45:
Harry Ferguson invented and patented the 3-point hitch. He marketed the hitch on 2 different tractors before pitching it to Henry Ford. Where the Ford/Ferguson joint effort paid off was Ford's ability to MARKET and DISTRIBUTE the tractors through his already established network of dealerships. Take a 9N Ford WITHOUT that hitch, and you probably couldn't have given them away at the time even with it's cheap price. Take the 9N as it was and try to market it through a start up dealership network with a relatively unknown name, and it wouldn't have succeeded. What made it a success was the total package and the timing...The world needed an efficient, small, low priced tractor available to the mass's.
Harry Ferguson was a great and prolific inventor. Just not a brilliant business man.
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