Ferguson Tractor PDF Service Manual

In 1911, Harry leaves his brother's workshop after a quarrel with him and opens his own company selling Maxwell, Star and Vauxhall cars and Overtime tractors (renamed for the British market of American Waterloo Boy tractors). It was on the basis of his own company that he began his first agricultural experiments: in 1916, together with Willie Sands, they developed the first mounted plow system. As a chassis, they use an agricultural (almost like a tractor) version of the Ford T - Eros.

The fundamental point here is that before that, all agricultural implements used their own wheels, and what pulled them, a horse or a tractor, was not so important. Agricultural implements in the form of attachments also appear here. Later, the same plow, named "Belfast Plow", will be adapted for installation on the Fordson F.

The new system, thanks to a more rigid kinematic connection between the tractor and the equipment, did not allow such a situation. Harry Ferguson patented his System in 1928.

After such a fundamental invention, Ferguson decided to build a tractor that could fully demonstrate the benefits of the new system. Taking into account the rich own technical baggage, a number of other technical solutions have accumulated that could be implemented in a new car. Being, like the Fordson, a frameless design, the new tractor included a three-point linkage, a hydraulic system, and an automatic control system for the depth of working equipment. Negotiations began with manufacturers ready to take on the construction of a new machine. Among those who showed interest in a promising design were Allis Chalmers, Rushton, Ransomes, Rover. The most successful negotiations were with Morris Motor Co. Having practically agreed on cooperation, they could not produce anything - the Great Depression broke out. Therefore, Ferguson was forced to start building a tractor on his own in 1933. Supply of a number of components, incl. gearboxes were handled by David Brown. Subsequently, they also acted as the basis for the construction of a new tractor. The rather famous "Black Tractor" was built in 1933. He became black because of Ferguson's sympathy for utilitarianism, and in this case it is another parallel with Henry Ford. Many write that it was the Black Tractor that set the main trends in the development of wheeled agricultural tractors for several decades to come.

After that, in 1935, Ferguson makes a deal with David Brown (at that time a large manufacturer of mechanical transmissions), which was supposed to produce new tractors in their factories, and Ferguson ltd was engaged in their sale. By the way, Ferguson himself wanted the new tractors to be produced in black, but he was dissuaded from this, and gray became the corporate color of his tractors for a long time. The first 350 (according to other sources 550) tractors were equipped with Coventry Climax L engines that produced 20 hp. After that, David Brown purchased the necessary equipment and launched the production of their own engines. A small digression: this is the same David Brown, who in 1947 will buy Aston Martin. The Brown and Ferguson partnership would end in 1938. One of the reasons for the gap was the unsuccessful sales of new cars.

Ferguson, having prepared 2 tractors and attachments, goes to Michigan to negotiate with Henry Ford. In 1938, Ferguson was introduced to Ford by the Sherman brothers (I never found who they were). In October of the same year, the tractor and equipment are delivered to Fair Lane, Ford's estate. The test was carried out in conjunction with two other tractors: Fordson and Allis-Chalmers.

In January 1939, Ferguson moved to Dearborn with his family and most valuable employees to begin work on a tractor that would later be known as the Ford-Ferguson 9N. Having adopted many of the promising solutions of the Ferguson-Brown tractor, Ferguson and his team were able to use the widest aggregate base of Ford. In addition to his team, a large number of Ford specialists took part in Ferguson's work. The design of the new tractor was also developed by professional Ford stylists. The new tractor was demonstrated in the same 1939. He became a serious argument in Ford's competition with International Harvester.

In 1952, the long lawsuit with Ford ends. Almost at the same time, the patent for the three-point suspension expires. At this time, Ferguson sells his stake in his own company to the largest and one of the oldest manufacturers of agricultural equipment in Canada - Massey-Harris. For some time he continues to work and retains some of the shares of the company, called Massey-Harris-Ferguson, but in 1957 he finally sells all his assets. He founds an engineering consulting firm and deals with various issues, such as four-wheel drive for various cars. One of Ferguson's latest creations was the all-wheel drive Formula 1 car, the Ferguson P99. Ferguson did not live to see the successful debut of his car, dying in 1960.