Ford tractor is the market leader and also the oldest brand name in tractor market. It has a long history of manufacturing tractors. This article portraits the actual historical background ofand its popular models known as Ford Tractor 9N, 2N and 8N.Fordson was a well-known brand name in the world of tractor. In the early 20th century, Fordson owned by Henry Ford & Son Inc mass-produced general-purpose tractors from 1917 to 1920. Later on, the production continued by Ford Motor Company (US) and Ford Motor Company Ltd. (UK) from 1920 to 1928, and by Ford Motor Company Ltd. (UK) from 1929 to 1964.The owner of the Henry Ford & Son Inc was an American engineer, inventor, and businessman Henry Ford. During the early 20th century, he started to build experimental tractors from automobile components and launched a prototype popularly known as Model B in August 1915. Further development of this prototype, with the design of tractor was followed in 1916. In 1917, Henry Ford and Son Inc started exporting their manufactured Fordson brand tractor to UK to expand British agriculture and also US domestic sales begun which boomed in 1918 and 1919.Fordson never had the market to itself, but it dominated the tractor market for a time roughly 1917 to 1925. But, for a decade between 1928 and 1939, Ford Motor Company (US) left the business and reentered in the market 1939 with an all-new model, this time with the Ford brand name. In between the time-period, Ford of England continued the manufacture of Fordsons, developed many new variations and exported widely to Europe and US market.Although Henry Ford and Son Inc left the tractor business in 1928, the owner Henry Ford continued tractor research and development in his different US production facilities. During his R&D effort, he created prototypes of row-crop tricycles Fordsons, V8-powered tractors, one-wheel-drive tractors and many other ideas. But Henry Ford was actually waited for the right new tractor to reenter the market at the right to achieve a market-changing success.On the other side of the scenario, an Irish businessman Harry Ferguson has been developing and selling different developed and improved hitches, implements, and tractors since 1910s. By 1926, he and a team of his long-time colleagues developed a proper hydraulic three-point hitch and put such hitches on David Brown Ltd. Built Ferguson-brand tractors in mid-1930s.Eber Sherman, a friend of both Henry Ford and Harry Ferguson, and an importer of Fordsons brand tractor from England to the US arranged to have Ferguson demonstrate his tractor for Henry Ford. Ferguson’s successful tractor demonstration impressed Ford, which led to a handshake agreement with Ford in 1938 and Ford, started manufacture tractors using the Ferguson three-point hitch system.Ford Motor Company (US) invested a total sum of $12 million in tooling to finance Ferguson’s new distribution company that resulted in the production of the 9N tractor. This model was introduced in the market on June 29, 1939. After reentering the tractor market with Ford brand name and introducing 9N tractor, Ford Motor Company (US) gradually introduced Ford N-Series tractor, spanning themodels. All these models were launched between 1939 and 1952.Ford 9N model tractor was the first one of N-Series tractor introduced to the market that is also the first tractor has both three-point hitch system and a rear power take off. Its model name reflects the last digit of introduction year and also the letter of product type. This model was designed to be a general-purpose row-crop tractor to use on small farms. Although it’s a very simple tractor, the 9N was well-equipped with the Ferguson’s three-point hitch system, a three-speed transmission and featured footpegs instead of running boards.Ford 9N model tractor revised several times and launched in the market finally as the 2N model in 1942. This model had added improvements with a larger cooling fan and a pressurized radiator. However, this model still had only a 3-speed transmission like the 9N model and also had a disadvantage compared to many tractors at the time. Due to war situation, some regulations were imposed on manufacturing economies which resulted batteries were reserved for war effort, so the all-steel wheel tractors like some 2N models came with a magneto ignition system instead of battery and had to be started with a hand-crank.In 1945, grandson of Henry Ford, Henry Ford II took over the Ford Motor Company (US) and terminates the handshake contract with the Ferguson, join hands with Massey Harris, a Canadian company, to become Massey Ferguson. This joint venture started official production of the 8N model tractor in July, 1947. The remarkable differences between the 8N and previous versions of the series were the inclusion of a 4-speed transmission instead of 3-speed transmission, and an increase in both PTO and drawbar horsepower.Another significant change in the 8N model was the addition of ‘Position-Control’ setting for the hydraulics. The primary objective of this change was to improve the flexibility in varying soil conditions, and also to evade Harry Ferguson’s patent on the hydraulic system. But the continued drawback to this series was the lack of a”live” Power Take Off (PTO). Absent of live PTO cause the tractor to surge forward if the clutch were disengaged.As the Ford tractor is the oldest player in the tractor market, it has such reputation and reliability among the users. Besides, the tractor spare parts, after sales service and technical know-how is also very much available to the users, dealers and distributors of Ford brand tractors in all over the world.