Tractors: 1880s to 1980s

by Nick Baldwin

Of all motor vehicles the farm tractor has proved to be among the most beneficial. It has freed hundreds of thousands of laborers and horses from backbreaking toil on the land in all weathers and it has stabilized the cost of food.

Starting with steam power in the middle of the nineteenth century, the agricultural tractor became motorized in the early years of the twentieth century. From vast prairie types, lighter, one-man machines arrived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074780754X
• ISBN13: 9780747807544
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Shire Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.0"