Tour Scotland Video Vintage Fordson Tractor Ploughing Fife

Tour Scotland video of a vintage Fordson tractor ploughing in a field between Kingskettle and Ladybank on visit to Fife, Scotland. This was part of a Fife Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Plowing Match. American engineer, inventor, and businessman Henry Ford built experimental tractors from automobile components during the early 20th century, and launched a prototype known as the Model B in August 1915. Further prototypes, with a dedicated tractor design, followed in 1916. With World War I raging in Europe, the first regular-production Henry Ford & Son tractors were exported to the U.K. in 1917 to expand British agriculture. In 1918, exports continued, the tractors began to be labeled as Fordsons, and U.S. domestic sales began. Sales boomed in 1918 and 1919.

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