Canada isn’t generally known for her tractors, but one Canadian tractor manufacturer made a mark on the world: Cockshutt. The company started in 1882, when Jame...
Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951) had his hands into just about everything with an engine. By the time he started his own engineering firm in 1931, Dr. Po...
You’re forgiven if “WD-40” brought something else to mind. Before that incredibly useful product was invented, there was an equally useful product with the same...
The start of the ‘60s was when the passenger car horsepower races got hot and heavy, but not many car guys know the same thing was happening with tractors. The ...
The 1980s are not pleasantly remembered by most in agricultural manufacturing. Things took a downturn in the late ‘70s, got serious in the early ‘80s, and had a...
The Case 401 was a mid-sized diesel general purpose (rowcrop) tractor that was big enough for many larger jobs and small enough to be useful as a farmyard util...
If it reminds you of a Ford, you are forgiven: the roots of this tractor go back to 1936 and Harry Ferguson, the same guy who designed the 9N tractor for Ford ...
When International Harvester debuted its new Raymond Loewy-designed Letter Series tractors in 1939, it was one of their bigger advancements. The improvements ca...
