BUILDING FORD'S BASILDON TRACTOR FACTORY

This archive film tells the story of how a field was turned into a tractor making factory at Basildon in Essex. Ford then produced a range of brand new tractor models there and New Holland still assembles T6 and T7 tractors in this factory today!
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[@stewartmcneill2262]

Just look at the skilled men there now that makes me proud of the uk

[@peterholliday6229]

A very nice archive film thanks

[@juststuffwithwolfe4482]

My dad was born in 62 so this film is like 59 or 60 years old

[@rogermills9512]

Superb.

[@alanlancelot2885]

Ford very best tractors

[@JonDingle]

They don't make like that any more, the video and the tractor's that is! Interesting seeing how things have changed in health and safety in the construction industry over fifty years too!

[@jbshortsvideo5677]

Sghrdufbt

[@enigmagermany2303]

What is that implement the dozer tractor is pulling at the start of this video? Looks interesting.

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

Thats a scraper box, used to level a site by scraping off the soil and carting it to a heap

[@tomn8tr]

Wow, looks like ATVs at 2:13, but they didn't exist yet!

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

Looks like a small dump truck, but its going very fast for one!!!

[@bigears4426]

Sadly over the next 20 years everything turned to shit for English manufacturing

[@jameshill-lonergan5573]

But they are still making tractors there now.

[@bigears4426]

James Hill-Lonergan that's good to know , but England just like Australia has lost most of it's manufacturing

[@enigmagermany2303]

Yes that's very true. Many wonderful manufacturing plants came to an end. Even the Massey Ferguson factory.