Don't know who was first but Ford offered the 9N in 1939 with electric start, so IF (and that's a big IF) the first electric start tractor came out in 1939 then it was more than one manufacturer.
Kinda makes me laugh, all this first stuff. A lot of clamed firsts are just not true.
Claim: first diesel tractor: IH. Not true, was Cat in 1933. Yes a crawler but it was sold as a farm tractor and for construction.
First turbo: AC: not true, Cat beat them by about 6 years. No, it wasn't on rubber but again on a crawler offered both in AG and earth moving models.
But here is the kicker. It doesn't matter who was first. It matters that it was done. Heck when Cat turboed a coupled of models the turbo was far from being new and no, Cat did not invent it. It, the turbo was over 50 years old when Cat used it.
Kinda funny but on another board someone posted about JD copying CaseIH with a quad track. The quad track concept was developed by Cat 4 decades before the Quadtrak was released. Cat was messing with it for loaders because of tire problems with loaders in quarry/mining applications. By the time it was ready to release tire tech had solved the problem making a steel tracked quadtrak obsolete before it could enter production. So CaseIH wasn't innovative, they just were coptCATS.
But here is the whole ting in a nutshell. When I get on a tractor to actually work it I like the turbo diesel engines, AC and heat. Doesn't matter who was first putting them on a tractor.......matters that they did.
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