Massey Ferguson
Used Massey Ferguson Tractors
Massey Ferguson (or more accurately of late, Massey Harris Ferguson) is a well known American owned manufacturer of agricultural equipment.
A major manufacturer out and out, most tractors seen today, even in the UK, are Massey Ferguson products. World firsts are usually included when describing construction machinery and agricultural machinery manufacturers, and Massey Ferguson is no different. Shaping the modern tractor, Massey Ferguson is credited with the invention of the world’s first mechanical threshers.
Thanks to a large labour shortage throughout America and Canada, farmers looked to tractors in order to get what needed to be done taken care of- with the ideals of automating more parts of the job, to do what animals and humans simply could not.
Massey Ferguson filled that void with their range of tractors and shaped modern farming to be what it is today as result. Early models from Massey Ferguson included the vaunted 20 Horsepower Massey GP 15/22 which was developed as early as 1930. It only seemed to improve with each and every subsequent model released after that, offering very real boosts to horsepower with every single tractor and harvester released. Eventually, the Massey family worked with the very notable steam engine builder LD Sawyer and started a production line of steam-powered tractors.
Hugely successful, these steam-powered machines were released in a variety of engine sizes. This provided very good business until 1910 when Massey Ferguson started to explore the potential that oil-based engines offered. Their first offering, to be frank, was a learning experience. The Bulldog wasn’t very popular with farmers, and Massey Ferguson only saw it as opportunity to improve. They took the learning experience head-on and started to manufacture excellent machines, including the world’s first self-propelled combine harvester.
Eventually, Massey Ferguson won a military contract and provided the US Army with a number of highly notable machines including the M5 Stuart Light Tank, the M44 Self-Propelled Howitzer, the M36 Jackson tank destroyer, not to mention a series of military-grade tractors.
A series of notable procurements of other companies has ensured that Massey Ferguson has managed to survive where other manufacturers have failed. With takeovers of companies based in Italy, England, Spain, and Germany, among other countries.
As such, these companies R&D has enabled Massey Ferguson to become the biggest tractor manufacturer in the world, well known and very well loved by farmers across the world for the toughness of their tractors, the reliability they offer compared to the other brands available, and most of all, their gigantic engines.
