Corkman remembers Henry Ford II's visit to Cork in 1977

In 1977, when Henry Ford II, grandson of Henry Ford, visited the Cork factory, he must have felt like Santa Claus.

He presented a prize of an all-expenses paid holiday for two in Detroit to Edward Colgan, of Portalington, Co Laois, after he won a competition to find the oldest Cork-built Fordson tractor in the Republic.

His machine, built in the spring of 1920, was still being used to sow potatoes.