Actually... by the time the old man left the chair he was quite a senile old bugger. The company was losing a LARGE amount of money for simple lack of management. It wasn't until after the war when Henry Ford II took over that things started to right themselves again. I don't think it was so much that the tractor division suffered from lack of managerial interest... it was just that there were so many other fires to put out that it simply wasn't the top priority. The tractor modernization program happened in the early 60s but reality was that by that point in time Ford had more or less missed the opportunity to move into the larger row crop market and kind of became stranded in the utility market... which they more or less dominated in many areas.... but in the grand scheme of things that wasn't enough in the long run.
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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