The Ford 9N (Ford/Ferguson) at its official launch on 29th June, 1939, with Harry Ferguson at the wheel, demonstrating the tractor. The launch was organised by the Ferguson-Sherman Corporation, and held at Henry Ford’s Fair Lane estate, near Detroit, USA. A number of the new tractors were on display, together with various Ferguson-Sherman implements. It was an enormous marketing exercise with, in excess of, 500 newspaper reporters being amongst the invited guests.
The joint venture company, Ferguson–Sherman Incorporated, was set up in December, 1925, and Ferguson and his family, and Williams, remained in the USA for about twelve months, until the venture was fully operational.
From 1923, Ferguson, with the Ford plough design problems behind him, was concerned that British farmers still displayed a reluctance to accept mechanisation.
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