| Show THE FORDSON TRACTOR WINS ALL ENGLAND dearborn mich june 21 according to a telegram received by F myers tractor representative for henry rord ford son in holland county england tile the fordson tractor serial number E 69 had won the all eng land championship for thi th period ending april 6 this in spite of the tact fact that the tractor lost live five das the competition tor for the tractors starting before the fordson arrived the tractors marked on four separate farms during the three weeks and two days it was in commission the tractor plowed and cultivated tiva ted etc 4 7 0 i acres and the amount earned was nas 37 th the e iwas paraffin keros kerosene consumption was two and six sevenths gallons per i acres the tractor was worked by two soldiers who have been trained in the county and who alio previous to this I 1 had no experience in the working of tractors they worked 12 hours a day including sunday the I 1 he championship pion ship shield received by the men la is a tine fine work of art and bears the inscription national rood food campaign champion tractor ot of england and wales the championship shield will be held for one month the circulation of derogatory re reports with regard to the performance of fordson tractors Is heard from time to time and it Is unfortunate that these continue to receive attention in many places those who are circulating these reports are in complete ignorance of the success of the fordson in the government trials persons circulating such reports must be ignorant of the exhaustive tests to which these tractors were submitted before the british government permitted itself to purchase efthem of them circulators circulatory of these reports must also be ignorant of the success this tractor achieved in the competitions arranged by the ford production department however the best recommendation for the bordson Is that the government did not only buy the but due to their great success more have been added to the above number in england mr henry ford son are now making an output of 70 to 80 per cent of the worlds market which will mean that there are three fordson tractors to every other tractor in the world a market these people are apparently not aware that these tractors worked twenty tour four hours a day in actual plowing before the government decided to make the pui chase the best answer to the suggestion that the fordsor Is not successful when using kerosene tor for fuel la Is tho the tact fact that these tests were accomplish ed on kerosene and the british government ern ment after exhaustive trials has baa continued to use kerosene as the fuel la in all the fordson tractors ti actors six acres were plowed in 4 6 hours with a consumption of 1 84 gallons ol of kerosene per acre this was made under official observation the gallon referred to Is the british imi im i in aerial gallon which Is 18 one fifth lar 1 ger than the american gallon I 1 with tho the lordson fordson tractor a power farming has been revolutionized no more Is it necessary for you to I 1 discard our machine in the middle of the field and plow around it with horses as the bordson haa a reverse speed and a turning radius of 10 feet the fordson tractor has given service and has haa held up for five years and will continue to give service and hold bold up when years ago there was a demand for tractors many companies I 1 i bogan bean bult building ding them unlike the I 1 j other makers mr air ford chose to do his own experimenting and therefore ther eforo placed his tractor plant on his own farm during the three years that other manufacturers were letting the farmer pay tor for their experiments mr air ford experimented with sixty tractors of different types and sizes five years ago after having made empry conceivable test and after having considered the needs of small farm owners as well as large the poA powerful erful compact simple of construction st and long looked for fordson vas aas placed on the market for the same purpose as the ford SERVICE |
