The Ford machine that changed the world of farming [video]

Henry Ford, a son of the County Cork soil, produced a tractor that revolutionised agriculture in Ireland and around the world, writes Jessica Casey. 

“Many were the expressions of wonder and amazement that came forth from the vast assemblage, as it quietly and vigorously sped from headland to headland and turned up the sod to the tune of one acre per hour.”

That was the vivid description in the Cork Examiner of the spectators watching a Fordson tractor in awe at a motor ploughing demonstration in 1918.