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A 1922 Fordson Model F tractor that was in use at the Karen Blixen Museum. Photo courtesy of Henry Muuthia
When I first saw the old, blue 1922 Fordson model F tractor at the Karen Blixen Museum, I was awe-struck by the very thought that such a legendary piece of technology had somehow found its way in to Kenya at a time it was making its début in 1916 in American and later, in 1917, in European farms as the first lightweight mass-produced tractor in the world.
The Fordson, priced at about US$ 750.00, allowed average farmers to own a tractor for the first time. Before this model, tractors were a preserve of the filthy rich – in fact it is said there were only 600 tractors in the whole of the USA by 1908. Continue reading
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