The "Forcson" or Fordson tractor in Hontfüzesgyarmat
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The tractor owners are probably celebrating the "takeover" in the photo. The stretched-out large-scale tractor can be seen between the tractor and the threshing machine. ; Henry Ford and his son Edsel changed agricultural production forever when they designed and began selling the Fordson F-Model tractor in 1917. Also nicknamed the "T-Model of the arable land", the machine was the world's first lightweight and affordable tractor. ; Everyone knows the T-Model, but the brilliant Hungarian inventors József Galamb and Jenő Farkas are credited with the design of another vehicle, the history of which is unknown to many, but it can be safely said that it played the same role in the development of the automotive industry as the T-Model. ; The Fordson F-Model, which weighed only 1,100 kilograms, had 42-inch rear wheels and 28-inch front wheels, and the tractor was powered by a four-cylinder, 20-horsepower engine. ; Production began in October 1917 in a specially built Dearborn plant, where the first 7,000 machines destined for England were produced. In 1919, production also began in Cork, Ireland, where more than half a million units of the revolutionary tractor were produced by the time the model series was discontinued in 1928. ; Fordson tractor types In Hungary, almost half of the total tractor stock, and a third of the world's tractors, was of the Fordson brand at the end of the 1920s. ; (http://www.automotor.hu/hirek/szaz-eves-az-elso-fordson-traktor/)