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Wool Processing / The Fordson Tractor In Oregon Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Hand running across threads in loom - side view of loom in operation - shuttle moving back and forth. [1926] b. “Thus the Fordson is serving Oregon to advantage, always giving its best and taking little in return.” Tractor-powered threshing machine in field, haystack, sacks of grain, workers - view of Vista House at Crown Point on the Columbia River Highway, trees, automobile and tourists - view of river - workers spraying apple orchard with tractor-powered spraying equipment - business district, automobile and pedestrian traffic, tractor-drawn fire engine in background turning corner - crowd on sidewalk in business district, fire engine arriving, laying hose from fire plug, tractor-drawn fire engine - tractor in middle of field, cans and buckets on ground, farmhouse in background, worker - group of men walking toward tractor, drive belt operated by tractor - mountain highway - river, forest. “Portland.” Workers cutting wood on tractor-powered saw - group of men examining tractor - group watching men cutting wood. “Being able to do this kind of work in the Columbia River bottom lands resulted in Eager Brothers’ disposing of two other tractors and purchasing Fordsons.” Tractor-drawn plows in wet, marshy field, bogging down in water, getting out - man walking in heavy mud - group of men watching tractor in operation in mud. “Pulling trailers on the wet, slippery pavement of Portland, Oregon.” Business district, tractor pulling wagon loaded with wood and flatbed wagon loaded with men and boxes along wet street. “On the scenic drive of America, the Columbia River Highway, the Fordson is hard at work hauling wood up a heavy grade near Crown Point.” Tractor pulling two wagons loaded with wood along highway. [1920]
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