N.Ireland
Harry Ferguson and his ambitious plan for humankind
Henry George Ferguson was rarely accused of lacking ambition, for there was within him a desire to succeed, not in...
Fordson
N.Ireland
Machinery: Why the Fordson won out in WW2
The late 1930s saw a heavy cloud hang over Britain as Germany made its intentions ever clearer, and those intentions...
Agri-Business
Machinery: Irish Rovers return after epic UK tractor run
Setting off from the very northern tip of Scotland in the first week of May, on a cabless tractor, heading...
N.Ireland
Basildon marks two millionth tractor milestone
60 years of tractor production at the New Holland plant in Basildon, Essex, has brought the total number of tractors...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Fordson -‘forth it went into the fields’
As a rule, tractors inspire very little poetry but one model that did attract the pen of impressionable scribes and...
Agri-Business
1961 Triple-D expected to make €70,000 under the hammer
This 1961 Doe Triple-D (pictured above) – otherwise known as a ‘tandem tractor’ – is up for auction, where it’s...
Machinery
Pics: Forager frenzy at Ford-themed machinery extravaganza in Cork
The West Cork Vintage Ploughing and Threshing Association’s Ford 100 Fest took place yesterday (August 27) on the ancestral home-farm of...
Machinery
Pics: Machinery and childhood memories abound at huge Ford tractor display
Ford and New Holland machines from the length and breadth of the island converged on Nutts Corner, Co. Antrim last...
