Austin Tractors vintage photography or farmyards in the 1920s-1940s

or farmyards in the 1920s-1940s

Making a forge or

Further development of the tractor range was to continue with the introduction of the "98" series engines

including the use of hydraulics

Austin Tractors vintage photography or farmyards in the 1920s-1940sLike Henry Ford, Herbert Austin had farming roots. Both brought motoring to the masses and both attempted to take the physical drudgery out of farming by introducing mechanization. Austin imported American machines in the First World War and heard about the revolutionary new Fordson. His take on the new rigid, frameless technology was the 1919 Austin R, built at his Birmingham car factory. The inexorable reduction of the price of Fordsons saw Austin