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Re: Worst Tractor Ever Built?
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Posted by Jim.UT on December 20, 2004 at 12:06:49 from (64.122.18.247):
In Reply to: Worst Tractor Ever Built? posted by Walter Squires on December 20, 2004 at 08:55:29:
OK, here's a story I've read a few times, but not enough to get it 100% correct. I'll give it a shot. Some shyster in Michigan or Minnesota wanted to cash in on the tractor craze in the early part of the 20th Century when tractors were brand new. He had an employee by the last name of Ford so he registered the name "Ford Tractor Company" so he could capitalize on the Ford name. He built some crappy tractors and sold them. This is the reason Henry Ford's first tractors had to be sold as "Fordson" because the Ford name had already been taken. A farmer/legislator in Nebraska bought one of these so-called Ford tractors and had such a bad experience with it that he was the moving force behind a Nebraska law requiring any tractor manufacturer to submit their product to the University of Nebraska for some independent testing before they could be sold in that state. Since Nebraska's agricultural machinery market was so lucrative, every manufacturer wanted to be licensed to sell tractors there and that's why we have the "Nebraska Tests" to refer to today. Those are the basics of the story. Someone with real knowledge can flesh out the details.
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