AN AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 October 1918, Page 4

AN AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR.

The United States Government recently released about 150 Fordsoa tractors for export to New Zealand, These tractors are now being advertised, and it confidently expected that they will rapidly be snapped up, as farmers and those engaged in hauling have been awmiting their arrival. Why the Fordson tractors were not allowed to be exported to New Zealand is because the armies in France and on other battlefields required all that' the factories could produce. It is the Fordson tractor that is hauling British and Allied guns after the retreating Germans with such marvellous rapidity, enabling artillery fire to keep the retreaters going. Thousand of Fordson tractors are engaged in commissariat haulage and in conveying shells right up to the fighting line. Every tractor that could be turned out was urgently needed by the military authorities, but: that demand appears to have slackened as a consignment has been freed for New Zealand. It may be added that Fordson tractors are also almost solely being used for agricultural work in France, where they are a familiar sight, turning over the ground,, preparing it for cropping. Messrs. Edlin and Eteveneaux, of the Ford Garage, Taihape, are the agents for the Fordson, and all information in connection therewith may be obtained either by post, telephone or personal call.