Greyfordy9

Hello fellow Ford and Fordson tractor fanciers,

As it is nearly 25 years since the Ford Motor Company purchase New Holland I am trying to contact people who worked for the tractor and equipment company prior to that time.

Although I am in Australia and quite remote from your forums, I thought that letting people know what is going on down here may be of interest along with the fact that ther may be some Aussies overseas who would be interested in our project.

I would like to put up regular posts and I invite you to private message me for more information.

Cheers for now,

Terry Probert
Australia

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Welcome to the forum Grayfordy9! Sounds like a great project and I hope you keep us informed over here!

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Greyfordy9

G'day from downunder,

Since the last post we have been gradually building our database of Ford T&E people. I will try to post some old photos and 8mm film of Aussie Fords in the field when I work out hou to upload the photos into this forum.

Photo of the last meeting attached.

More to come soon.

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Greyfordy9

Time for an update, we have a date locked in for 19th of November 2010, and it will be held at the Quality Hotel Melbourne Airport.

This has been an incredible task finding old coleagues and friends who have scattered to the four winds over 25 years.

The number of people on my list continues to grow and is only matched by the enthusiasm of Ford Tractor fans all over Australia.

Talk to you later,

Terry

Greyfordy9

Month End Report

Over 200 names on our database who are able to receive mail via post or internet.

Venue is booked

Discount accomodation available for those who are staying in Melbourne

Sixtty informal acceptances to date.

All in all a good month

We will develop a newsletter during the next month to be forwarded by e-mail to all who are interested, please forward a private message with your contact details to receive a copy.

Cheers for now,

Terry

Greyfordy9

Invites went out via e-mail and post last week, venue is booked people are coming all is now set for a big catch-up.

Greyfordy9

G'day from Downunder,

Just a quick update with some facts and figures, we found over 170 people from accross Australia who were either Company Management personnel or Dealer Principals.

Of these 60 will attend on Friday and 61 have asked to be acknowledged with an apology. That leaves another 50 who we have not received a response from.

About thirty of the company people are now to frail to attend and so will follow the event via a newsletter.

I am hoping that from this meeting we will be able to have the Tractor Operations represented in the FORD DISCOVERY CENTRE in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

Our Ford 8401 Tractor was a breakthrough unit for us in Australia and primarily led our high horsepower models into Market Leadership. For broadacre cereal farmers it offers a sophisticated 108 hp 6 cylinder tractor at a very competitive price.

This tractor is probably quite rare by intrenational terms but to the Ford Tractor Dealer during the early 80's it was a godsend.

Cheers for now and I will let you know how it all turned out next week.

Terry