Austin Tractors vintage photography Making a forge or

Making a forge or

Drawing from his exhaustive experience repairing and restoring gas engines

From the very beginning

This paperback edition provides a behind-the-scenes look at how these tractors were conceived and built by one of their foremost designers

and historian Randy Leffingwell and prolific tractor historian Robert N

Austin Tractors vintage photography Making a forge orLike Henry Ford, Herbert Austin had farming roots. Both brought motoring to the masses and both attempted to take the physical drudgery out of farming by introducing mechanization. Austin imported American machines in the First World War and heard about the revolutionary new Fordson. His take on the new rigid, frameless technology was the 1919 Austin R, built at his Birmingham car factory. The inexorable reduction of the price of Fordsons saw Austin