Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-09-18 | Page 9 | Ford Plans Small Tractor; Price to be $200

i I I FORD FORO PLANS PLANE SMALL TRACTOR PRIDE PRICE I j 1 TO BE I Sept A 18 A farm D 0 DETROIT tractor able to pull pUlI I two 1 or three gang plows to hart hari har- har t i row roll roU disc or seed as much ground I as s can be covered by three i 1 teams and to do all the hauling around i a farm or between farm that city and cit that thatis is the dream Henry Ford hopes to tomake tomake tomake I make a reality as soon as the war Is Isi i over T. Ford tractors selling around each I are not produced by Ford methods or sold for Ford prices They are not produced In ip Ford quantities to a large extent are not manufactured in Ford shops and sell at a price which Ford realizes Is a barrier barrier barrier bar bar- rier to their universal use But after the war Ford expects to set seta a a- anew new pace in the manufacture of oC efficient efficient efficient ef ef- ef- ef Inexpensive farm Carm tractors tractors' The Ford tractor will not be produced by the Ford Motor company which makes I Ford autos The tractor end of oC the business business busi busl- ness Is fg to be conducted by a distinct I company owned by Henry Ford and his hisson son eon Edsel The tractor properly speaking speak speak- I ling ing will not be the Ford but the Fordson r tractor I Today Fordson tractors are being turned out at the rate of about fifty each day from a little plant at Dearborn Mich within gunshot of Fords Ford's home When we ve entered the war however I officials official both of oC England and the United States urged Ford Fora to help supply tractors for farm use and the Dearborn shop was made temporary center of l. l Fordson tractor tractor tractor trac trac- tor work worl But practically all the parts were contractor or for and produced by outside out out- side yide d factories This has increased costs beyond Fords Ford's liking When Ford is toady seady r to produce tractors tractors trac trac- tors in quantity quantity quantity-by by the thousands and not by fifties a day day It It is possible the central Fordson plant will not be located art rt Detroit t Hamilton 0 O. is one of the cities that have been studied and consideration has been given to the proposition of ot building a plant there for the exclusive manufacture of ot Fordson tractors The Dearborn plant will be he continued as an ani i I experimental and development all op