Ploughing the Farm by Automobile 



The latest tractor attachment converts the Ford pleasure car into 

 a motor -operated farm implement with push-button rapidity 



The steel wheels of the tractor fit over the rear wheels and tires of the Ford automobile and are 

 locked in place. This gives sufficient stability to pull any light agricultural implement 



DIFFERING from all other forms of 

 tractor attachments to be applied 

 to the Ford car for cultivating small 

 farms, that shown in the accompanying 

 illustrations does not require the removal 

 of a single part of the original passenger 

 car. The entire apparatus can be attached 

 in a few minutes and detached in less time. 



The great advantage of a device of this 

 kind is that its cost is reasonable enough 

 to bring it within the reach of the small 

 farmer who has need of a tractor for only 

 a small part of each year. Besides, it 

 enables him to use his passenger car for 

 either business or pleasure and without 

 any long delays in- 

 cident to the re- 

 moval of wheels and 

 various parts of the 

 driving mechanism, 

 as in most devices 

 of this kind. 



The device is 

 made in two 

 halves, which are 

 simply slipped 

 over the rear end 

 of the chassis, 



Diagram showing how the two parts of the 

 tractor device fasten over the wheels of the car 



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wheels and all, and then bolted together at 

 front and rear. This gives suiificient sta- 

 bility to pull farm wagons as trailers, a 

 plow, harrow, cutter, binder or in fact any 

 form of light agricultural implement. 



The two steel wheels of the device have 

 grip treads, each wheel carried on a short 

 stub axle driven by chains and sprockets 

 from a notched axle into which lugs placed 

 on the hub of the Ford wheel are slipped. 

 The tractor wheels are supported on two 

 side frames bent inward at the front and 

 joined to a U-bolt on the Ford front axle 

 and tied together at the rear by a cross- 

 wise bar aft of the regular Ford touring 

 or roadster body. The two halves 

 of the device are slipped into place 

 from the sides 

 and locked into 

 position. 



To restore the 

 car to its origi- 

 nal appearance 

 and service it is 

 only necessary to 

 loosen the bolts 

 and remove the 

 steel wheels. 



