Name/Title
Tractor - Fordson E27N Major 1950Entry/Object ID
1983.043.1Description
Fordson was the name given to the tractors produced from 1917 by the Ford Motor Company, first in Dearborn, MI, and then in Ireland and the UK, where manufactire continued in Dagenham until 1964. The marque remained a separate entity from the Ford tractor line established after production was reintroduced to the US in 1939. After World War ll, the British Ford company up graded the Fordson, The new designed Fordson was the E27N E for England 27 for hp. and N for Ford. The engine was a four cylinder 276- ci engine. They were produced from 1945-1952. A Perkins diesel engine was available from 1950.
Henry Ford was brought up as a farm boy. He made his fortune in the automobile industry but never lost his ambition to remove the drudgery from agricultural labor by developing an affordable farm tractor.
Quote "I have followed many a weary mile behind a plow and I know the drudgery of it"
1944 The British Ministry of Agriculture requests a more efficient tractor
1945 The first Fordson E27N Major rolls off the assembly line.
1950 New Vapourizer announced for E27N Major
1951 "New" Major launched in Southend on Sea
1954 500,000 th Fordson to be built in Daganham drives off the assembly line
1955 Dagenham builds its 100,000 th Diesel Major
