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Forty Years with Ford Tractors
David Pearson spent more than four decades working for Ford's tractor business, starting on the production line at the maker's Dagenham factory before moving to the Basildon tractor plant opened in 1964. He went on to become the maker's UK sales manager, and earned a reputation among farmers and dealers as the man who knew all there was to know about Ford tractors. Along the way, he was involved in the development of some of the most famous machines to bear the blue livery, from the Dexta to the 7000, and the FW articulated tractors to the 7810. Edited by agricultural journalist Martin Rickatson, Forty Years with Ford Tractors builds on a series of recollections which originally featured in Classic Tractor magazine, and includes additional material to tell David's fascinating story in full. It includes a comprehensive selection of black-and-white and colour photographs, many of which have never before been published and will be of interest to all Ford fans and tractor fans more generally.Front cover photograph: (c) Dave Franciosy / www.farmingphotography.co.uk
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Forty Years with Ford Tractors
David Pearson spent more than four decades working for Ford's tractor business, starting on the production line at the maker's Dagenham factory before moving to the Basildon tractor plant opened in 1964. He went on to become the maker's UK sales manager, and earned a reputation among farmers and dealers as the man who knew all there was to know about Ford tractors. Along the way, he was involved in the development of some of the most famous machines to bear the blue livery, from the Dexta to the 7000, and the FW articulated tractors to the 7810. Edited by agricultural journalist Martin Rickatson, Forty Years with Ford Tractors builds on a series of recollections which originally featured in Classic Tractor magazine, and includes additional material to tell David's fascinating story in full. It includes a comprehensive selection of black-and-white and colour photographs, many of which have never before been published and will be of interest to all Ford fans and tractor fans more generally.Front cover photograph: (c) Dave Franciosy / www.farmingphotography.co.uk
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Forty Years with Ford Tractors

Forty Years with Ford Tractors

by David Pearson
Forty Years with Ford Tractors
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Forty Years with Ford Tractors

Forty Years with Ford Tractors

by David Pearson

Overview

David Pearson spent more than four decades working for Ford's tractor business, starting on the production line at the maker's Dagenham factory before moving to the Basildon tractor plant opened in 1964. He went on to become the maker's UK sales manager, and earned a reputation among farmers and dealers as the man who knew all there was to know about Ford tractors. Along the way, he was involved in the development of some of the most famous machines to bear the blue livery, from the Dexta to the 7000, and the FW articulated tractors to the 7810. Edited by agricultural journalist Martin Rickatson, Forty Years with Ford Tractors builds on a series of recollections which originally featured in Classic Tractor magazine, and includes additional material to tell David's fascinating story in full. It includes a comprehensive selection of black-and-white and colour photographs, many of which have never before been published and will be of interest to all Ford fans and tractor fans more generally.Front cover photograph: (c) Dave Franciosy / www.farmingphotography.co.uk

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781910456712
Publisher: Old Pond Books
Publication date: 10/01/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 120
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

David W. Pearson and Ron Bommarito both live near the Ludwig historic mining district of Nevada and are experienced, long-time students of mining and collectors of mining artifacts. They each have examined thousands of items in public and private collections and watched the evolving market carefully.

Table of Contents

Foreword Rory Day

Foreword Andrew Watson

1 Beginnings in Agriculture 1

2 New Fordsons for a New Era 8

3 Overseas Adventures 14

4 Dealers and Customers 27

5 Launch of the 6X Line 32

6 Good Times, Bad Times 41

7 Prairie Power 54

8 Excavators and Exhibitions 60

9 Dealer Challenges 67

10 Contracting Capers 73

11 Successes and Failures 77

12 Farmer Feedback 83

13 New Tractors, New Owners 93

14 Car Connections 101

15 The Future - Then and Now 105

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