Henry Ford created the Henry Ford & Son Company in November 1915 to develop and produce a farm tractor. In October 1917, the company began building 6,000 tractors for England and 1,000 for Canada to ...

Ford Motor Co.’s first Fordson tractor produced at the company’s Rouge manufacturing complex in Dearborn, Mich., comes off the assembly line on Feb. 23, 1921. Ford founder Henry Ford, who was born and ...

Henry Ford's mechanical interests went much further than automobiles. Ford also built America's foundational airliner, the Ford Trimotor, and kick-started the production of modern tractors, too. In ...