1970’s Most Advanced Tractor Was a Disaster

Picture a Kansas wheat farm more than fifty years back. The Steiger crowd is running giant articulated four-wheel-drives through the stubble like mechanical bison, and Massey Ferguson is watching its market share walk off. Their answer? A machine so loaded with technology it might as well have dropped out of the future. Four-wheel drive. Articulated steering. A Caterpillar V-8. Factory air conditioning, for Pete's sake. So how did the most advanced tractor of its era end up one of the decade's biggest flops? Pull up a seat, Massey Ferguson's 1500 story is something else.

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