Austin Tractors
$44.24
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2017
Summary
Like Henry Ford, Herbert Austin had farming roots. Both brought motoring to the masses and both attempted to take the physical drudgery out of farming by introducing mechanisation. Austin imported American machines in the First World War and heard about the revolutionary new Fordson. His take on the new rigid, frameless technology was the 1919 Austin R, built at his Birmingham car factory. The inexorable reduction on the price of Fordsons saw Austin move his tractors to the more protected Fre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781445668284 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1445668289 |
| Author: | Nick Baldwin |
| Publisher: | Amberley Publishing |
| Imprint: | Amberley Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 314g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 165mm |
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About The Author
Nick Baldwin
Nick Baldwin is a former chairman of the National Motor Museum Advisory Council, and owns several old tractors and historic vehicles. He has written a number of books about tractors and commercial vehicles, and is currently compiling an A-Z of the more than five thousand tractor makers that have existed in the past hundred years for ‘Tractor and Machinery’ magazine.
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