Massey Ferguson
As well as a world-beating product line, MF’s strength is rooted in the long-held philosophy to provide customers with much more than just a machine. A comprehensive range of support services ensures owners and operators benefit from the best possible advice and guidance before buying, and the best possible back-up once they have made their decision. The name Massey Ferguson was coined in 1958 – a shortening of the name Massey-Harris-Ferguson. This company had been formed in 1953 after the merger of the famous North American company Massey Harris with Harry Ferguson Limited of England.
Harry Ferguson was a brilliant engineer who brought about a major change in tractor design with his revolutionary three-point-linkage system that allowed both tractor and implement to work as an integrated unit. Today, virtually all tractors are based in some way on his unique ideas. The history of Massey Harris goes back to 1847 when Daniel Massey opened a workshop to build simple farm implements in Newcastle Ontario, Canada. A decade later – also in Ontario - Alanson Harris established a foundry to make and repair farm machinery.
Massey and Harris both became pre-eminent in harvesting machinery and eventually the archrivals merged in 1891. The new company was responsible for producing the world’s first commercially successful self-propelled combine in 1938. Massey-Harris merged with Harry Ferguson in 1953 and brought together their twin skills in harvesting machinery and tractor design to produce one of the world’s most powerful forces in farm equipment.
In 1995, Massey Ferguson was purchased by the US-based AGCO Corporation. In September 2003 a Dutch former farmer named Bert de Visser had bought a old De Massey Ferguson 35, so there are a couple elements that he have changed there. Other than that, the big news here is... that he is going to start writing about it.. O.K., that's not exactly big news, but the reason is. He is going start a foundation to raise money for the De Massey Ferguson 35 he bought in a very small village somewhere in the grasslands of Holland in the surrounding area of Bergambacht. It is very important to his family, and in trying to determine what difference he can make to the world, that is the direction he would like to go. His grandfather owned a Massey Ferguson 35 over 40 years ago, but some time in the last decade, the government took over and try to ruin the farmers industries all over the Netherlands. And now this brave Dutch man will find out what he will need to do to upgrade the Massey Ferguson 35 as far as it was in the past all with the original materials.
