John Deere: A History of The Tractor - Hardcover

Randy Leffingwell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760324557 ISBN 13: 9780760324554

Publisher: Crestline, 2005

Synopsis

No tractor has achieved a more iconic status than John Deere. It's simple, two-cylinder tractors proved just the reliable, dependable tool the early 20th century American farmer needed to take the great leap from farming with animals to mechanized farming. Although a late comer to the motorized farming industry, today John Deere's two-cylinder tractors are the most sought after collector tractors in the world. Always a conservative company, John Deere stuck with its two-cylinder tractors into the middle part of the century, long after every other manufacturer had moved on to four- and six-cylinder tractors. Yet these simple, noble machines continued to serve their market. When John Deere entered the multi-cylinder fray, it did so with the most advanced, groundbreaking machines ever built the New Generation tractors. These tractors set the trends for all subsequent tractor development through the latter half of the 20th century.Today John Deere stands alone as the last of the great American independent ag manufacturers. Yet it is still going strong, still setting trends, and still building the icons of the future.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crestline
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0760324557
• ISBN 13: 9780760324554
• Binding: Hardcover