The Ford Motor Company played a very important role in farm mechanisation in North America. Its Fordson Model F produced for the American market from 1918 was instrumental in bringing tractor power to the smaller farmers of the USA, and took over the market right into the 1920s, by which time it had become somewhat dated and was eventually dropped, the tooling being sent over to Cork in Ireland. Tractors such as the International Harvester Farmall took over as a much more versatile proposition, along with lots of other similar products being produced by many different manufacturers.
It was only after Harry Ferguson approached Henry Ford in the late 1930s, with his idea to produce a tractor using his Ferguson System of hydraulic draft control and three-point linkage, that Ford once again entered the North American tractor market with a home-produced product. The resultant Ford 9N was introduced in 1939 and its compact, sleek and modern design was very different to any other tractor then being produced, as was the incorporation of the Ferguson System. This allowed this small tractor to do much heavier work thanks to the special implements used, which became an integral part of the machine itself.
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