2 BOOKS The Illustrated History of Tractors / Classic Farm Tractors 2008/09

BRAND NEW book, may have a few scuffs from customers browsing the shelves.  Or slight wear/dints to the cover  \n\nHARDBACK \n\nISBN 9780753714461\n\nClassic Farm Tractors by Michael Williams. \n\n\""Farm tractor development is a fascinating part of agricultural history.  The first tractors to challenge the supremacy of the farm horse and the steam engine were built more than 100 years ago. They were crude and unreliable, but they marked the start of an immense revolution in farming methods and were the forerunners of the modern tractors which are helping to feed a still hungry world.\n\nThe development which has led to the modern tractor is a story of ideas and inventiveness.  There have been important innovations which were milestones in the history of power farming, and there have been the failures, some of them simply good ideas ahead of their time and others which were mechanically absurd.  Classic Farm Tractors describes some of these successes and failu.