Chapter on Harry Ferguson

There is a lot of biographical information in this link. You can read some of the book pages under the chapter about Harry Ferguson. I am going to buy the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Distinguished-Figures-Mechanism-Machine-Science/dp/1402063652/ref=pd_rhf_schuc_p_img_7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=875A0RNH0T8ZTZH7A4R3

Gordon Pennock of or formerly of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in Indiana wrote the chapter on Harry. Does anyone know Dr. Pennock?

I was unaware that Ferguson had received patents involving carburetors.

https://harryferguson.blogspot.com

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries made MF125

About 8 or 9 years back I was driving through Detroit and spotted a yellow Massey Ferguson forklift (they say HiLo around there), It was about a 1960  TO based machine  looking like a mast was mounted where the 3 point should be and the seat was reversed. It was about 30 ^oF but the gasoline Continental  fired right up.

Fast forward to now. Mitsubishi is making the Caterpillar forklifts. Towmoter, formerly in Mentor Ohio, closed quite a ways back.

http://www.mcfa.com/en/mcfa

I am told Mitsubishi Heavy Industries builds the trackhoes for Caterpillar.

[James Peck]  From the book MASSEY FERGUSON 100 SERIES IN DETAIL. Page 11. MF125 Next in the numerical lineup is an oddball, the Japanese MF125, This model was produced in 1973 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at the Sagamihara works especially for the Japanese market under license from MF. It was powered by Mitsubishi's own KE135 diesel engine, a two cylinder, four stroke water-cooled with an output of 25bhp. Looks like collectors may have to try and import one from Japan.

I am not sure how close the relationship there is between MHI and the Mitsubishi that makes autos. Mitsubishi seems to be floundering since Chrysler sold off its controlling shares. Mitsubishis had drifted under control of Renault-Nissan alliance but the charges of tax fraud by the Japanese government against the Brazilian head of Renault Carlos Ghosn may have weakened that lash up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault%E2%80%93Nissan%E2%80%93Mitsubishi_Alliance

MHI lists an impressive array of products including military tanks, but not tractors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries

I was not aware that the Ferguson-Brown Type A had a PTO.

http://fergusontractors.org/nfs/1-18-pto-shaft-and-1-38-pto-shaft/

South African Web Article

This South African web article seems to be exceptionally well written. It does mention that the original Ferguson System controls from the pump suction side. That is not the prevailing way things are done nowadays.

What is really relevant here is that the Ferguson TE20 was in production in Coventry while the 9N was in production at Highland Park.

http://agriline.co.za/tractorparts/series_TE/Ferguson_TEA_20.html

South Arica is Zuid-Afrika in Dutch but Suid-Afrika in Afrikaans. How did they choose .za for internet addresses?

http://www.101languages.net/countries/south-africa-in-other-languages/

Jeep 3 point hitch

Here is a Jeep three point hitch shown.

http://www.cj3a.info/acc/2love.html

Massey Fergusons parked in Detroit awaiting rail shipment.

Glendale Ave runs East to the old MF Detroit plant. See the tractors waiting to be loaded in the lower center. They were driven West on Glendale to the rail loading area.

Massey Ferguson Archives

This good piece of advice comes from the Issue 47 of Ferguson Furrows magazine.

 

Preserve Your Ferguson Material

FENA and Parks Library at Iowa State University in Ames have established the Massey Ferguson Archives. To preserve brochures, photos, promotional materials, & other documents relating to Ferguson or early MF tractors & implements for posterity, you can contact:

 

Tanya Zanish-Belcher

Special Collections Department

403 Parks Library

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa 50011-2140

515-294-6672 tzanish@iastate.edu

www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS672.html