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    Fordson was a brand name of tractors and trucks. It was used on a range of mass-produced general-purpose tractors manufactured by Henry Ford & Son Inc...
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  • Fordsons may refer to: Fordson, a type of Ford tractor mostly made in Ireland but also in Detroit (Ford & Son) Ford of Britain, lorries, trucks and small...
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    The Fordson E83W (also sold from 1952 under the Thames brand as Thames E83W) is a 10 cwt (half ton) light commercial vehicle that was built by Ford of...
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  • Fordson High School is a secondary school located in Dearborn, Michigan, United States in Metro Detroit. It was completed in 1928 on a 15-acre (61,000 m2)...
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    The Fordson WOT (from War Office 'type' or 'truck') was a military truck produced by Ford of Britain in the Second World War. From 1939 to 1945, around...
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    Fordson Island is an 8.4-acre (3.4 ha) artificial island in the River Rouge, in southeast Michigan. It was created by the Ford Motor Company in 1918,...
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    Thames or Fordson Thames) was a commercial vehicle brand produced by Ford of Britain. The Thames name first appeared in 1939 as the Fordson Thames. Ford...
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    Company RAF in Egypt and Iraq received new chassis from a Fordson truck and became known as Fordson armoured cars. Photographs show them as equipped with...
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    the Fordson because a misleading Ford brand not related to Henry Ford was squatting on the Ford name at the time (Ford Tractor Company). The Fordson was...
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    1920s the Armstead Snow Motor was developed. This was used to convert a Fordson tractor into a screw-propelled vehicle with a single pair of cylinders...
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  • 1885. Springwells – became a village in 1919, a city in 1924, renamed Fordson in 1925, consolidated with Dearborn in 1928. Woodmere – The Village of...
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    WOT 8 - 4x4 15 cwt truck (1941 - 1942 Fordson E04C 5 cwt (1945–1948) Fordson E494C 5 cwt (1948–1954) Thames/Fordson 300E 5 cwt (1954) Thames 400E 10,12...
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    1923. In 1925 the city of Springwells would rename itself the city of Fordson and with a renewed fear of absorption into Detroit voted to consolidate...
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    result from a 1928 consolidation vote that merged Dearborn and neighboring Fordson (previously known as Springwells), which feared being absorbed into expanding...
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    exceptionally well in Great Britain. The tractor replaced the long-running Fordson Major which was a worldwide hit. It sold especially well because it slotted...
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    Dearborn Fordson Public Schools Board of Education, is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The institution was originally named Fordson Junior...
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    Lebanese immigrants in Dearborn, Michigan, Saleh is a 1997 graduate of Fordson High School He attended Northern Michigan University in Marquette from...
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  • in the early 1920s and specialised in products to expand the use of the Fordson tractor, which in the pre-war days included sprung road wheels, bucket...
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  • marketed his own line of tractors, beginning in 1916, under the brand name Fordson. On, June 19, 1916, Paul Ford was relieved of his duties with the company...
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    before he worked with Fordsons and others.) During the next decade, Model T tractor conversion kits were harder to sell, as the Fordson and then the Farmall...
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    Fordson tractor vaporizer- cutaway view...
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  • (Coach) (late) Aggrey Chiyangi (Coach) Jones Mwewa (Assistant) (late) Fordson Kabole (Coach) Alex Chola (Coach) (late) (1985–90), (1992–93) Jimmy Bone...
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  • Lincoln Discontinued Comet (1960–61) Continental (1956–59) Edsel (1956–59) Fordson (1917–64) Frontenac (1960) Mercury (1938–2011) Merkur (1985–89) Meteor...
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  • Eddie Slovik (category Fordson High School alumni)
    Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a United States Army soldier during World War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled...
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    and generate steady long-term profits. Ford's British factories produced Fordson tractors to increase the British food supply, as well as trucks and warplane...
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    132 16 International K7 "Inter" truck, International M-5-5-318 truck, Fordson WOT8 truck, Ford/Marmon-Herrington HH6-COE4 truck, Chevrolet G-7117 truck...
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    equipment.: 66  Both companies also faced fierce competition from the Fordson company. Between 1907 and 1918, Best and Holt had spent about US$1.5 million...
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    to Iraq and drove Fordson armored cars. "Fordson" armored cars were Rolls-Royce armored cars which received new chassis from a Fordson truck in Egypt. By...
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    Lord Northcliffe circa 1921 driving a Fordson tractor at Henry Ford's farm near Dearborn, Michigan, US. Northcliffe was on a world tour at the time, trying...
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    Lincoln Discontinued Comet (1960–61) Continental (1956–59) Edsel (1956–59) Fordson (1917–64) Frontenac (1960) Mercury (1938–2011) Merkur (1985–89) Meteor...
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