1918 and the arrival of the `steel horse'

Having started life as a farmer, Henry Ford was always interested in trying to make life easier for that hardy breed.
He developed the first practical mass-produced tractor in 1917 and, a year later, the famous Fordson was being shipped to Australia.
That first Fordson went to work on the Darling Downs in Queensland and the Ford tractors were soon being sought after by farmers all over Australia.
In July 1925, the same month that the first Model T rolled out of Ford’s temporary assembly plant in Geringhap Street, Geelong, 104 Fordson tractors were assembled by Ford Australia.
By the end of 1932, Ford had produced more than 10,000 Fordsons and, for the next 50 years, continued to produce thousands of `steel horses' for Australia’s farmers.