Posted by Tim Daley on June 06, 2006 at 08:39:32 [URL] :
In Reply to: My Life and Work, by Henry Ford posted by Farmer Dan on June 04, 2006 at 20:33:57:
Hey Dan-
If you enjoyed that book, here's a list of my favorite books:
1. The Fords In My Past -by Harold Brock ( chief tractor engineer from 1939-1959...excellent book! )
2. My Forty Years With Ford -Charles E. Sorensen
( Ford's right hand man )
3. We Never Called Him Henry -Harry Bennett ( Ford's thug )
4. The Legend Of Henry Ford -Keith Sward
( very good history book )
5. FORD -The Men And The Machine -Robert Lacey
( mostly about the rise and fall of Henry II )
6. The Firestone Story -Alfred Lief
( another good history book on one of Henry's buddies )
7. Tractor Pioneer: The Life Of Harry Ferguson -by Colin Fraser
( one of my favorites- good history book too )
8. Ferguson Implements & Accessories -John Farnworth
( Lists several 8N implements also -good reference book with pictures too! )
9. The History Of Old Time Farm Implement Companies and the Wrenches They Issued -by P.T. Rathbone
( whew! what a title but a good bed stand or coffee table read - No Ford tools listed here but then that's why we belong to NAFTCO )
Also, some good videos out there -see Don Powley and his ForWorkMa Productions 16MM to video tapes.
For the Ferguson crowd try:
Ferguson On The Farm Part One
&
Ferguson On The Farm Part Two -by Harold Beer and Suart Gibbard.
( Very good actual demonstrations by Harold Beer on his farm in England of many Fergsuon implements used on the Ferguson TE Tractor. People forget that after the split from Ford, Harry produced his own tractor [TE20 and TO20] with the TO, for Tractor Overseas, being mmanufactured right in Detroit alongside the new Ford 8N. Talk about competition! Because Harry and his new business did so well actually hurt him in his lawsuit against Ford. Many implements were still made by the same vendors that made them for him under Ford. The videos have very good explanations and narration by Stuart Gibbard )
Don't forget the Peterson and Beemer books on N-Series Tractors and Ford Farm Implements.
Tim Daley (MI)
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