Posted by Jeff-oh on October 02, 2008 at 12:34:07 from (192.88.212.44):
In Reply to: Flipping Fordson posted by Judy Wearing on October 02, 2008 at 11:31:27:
All tractor models of the 1920's had the same problem and potential of flipping as the Fordson.
In the early 1930's Harry Ferguson Invented/ Engineered his now standard 3-point "Ferguson" System.
His prototype tractor was know as the Black Tractor. This tractor was basically a Fordson Design with Ferguson's 3-point system.
Harry Ferguson then worked with David Brown and had a short lived relationship producing a tractor.
Harry Ferguson, born in 1884, started experimenting with tractors and plows in his early years. Harry is an important person in tractor history, being the inventor of the 3-point hitch. It was dubbed the "Ferguson System". After meeting with Henry Ford in 1938, over a handshake it was agreed that the 3-point hitch system would be installed on the Ford tractors being produced at that time (Ford 9N from 1939-1942 and the 2N from 1942-1947). These tractors had the "Ferguson System" insignia on them and Harry Ferguson received a share of the profits.
In 1947 Henry Ford's Grandson officially terminated this "handshake agreement". The Ford 8N tractors that were being produced around this time no longer carried the "Ferguson System" insignia. Ferguson sued the Ford Motor Co. and eventually won a settlement.
In what some say is retaliation, Harry Ferguson began producing his own line of tractors, beginning with the TO-20 in 1948. These tractors looked suprisingly similar to the Ford 9N and 2N and sported the 3-point hitch.
The 3-point Ferguson system is the engineering development that prevents the tractor from flipping. No one but H. Ferguson had it until the 1950's then as Ferguson's paten time ran out John Deere, Allis Chambers, IH and the others made it the industry standard.
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