Dearborn Motor Co.

[Cpl. Nape]

Hey guys, I am looking at fixing up my father-in-laws old Ford 9N. I found a second ID plate near the motor and it said Dearborn Motor Company and stated the tractor as a Model 14-A. I know that Ford has a plant in Dearborn Mi, but can anyone tell me what that stamp is about? And why did it have a different model number on it? Thanks for the help.

 

[old]

May have been one that was made for the military and if so it would be called something other then a 9N. Dearborn was fords equipment name at one time as in the loaders made for the N series tractors have a dearborn model/name on them
Hobby farm

 

[Anonymous-0]

Old, I guess that most Ford equipment was Dearborn in the day. I have a Woods Bros corn picker and a set of plows,mowing machine and cultivator that all have Dearborn on them.

 

[Davis In SC]

My first time on a tractor was an 8-N, plowing with a Dearborn 2-disk tiller, I was 7 or 8.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I don't have much experience with Dearborn implements except for the corn picker. We used it for several years when I was a kid. I inherited the plows and mower along with a cultivator, NAA tractor and disk from my grandpa.

 

[old]

Well thats true with the older stuff but at some point in time they dropped the Dearborn and started to use the ford name on all of it. I have a loader on one of my 8Ns that is a Dearborn but I also have a hay rake which is a lot newer and it has a ford tag on it. Sort of funny how they drop a name like that. But Farmall/IH did the same thing with there tractors
Hobby farm

 

[Anonymous-0]

Old, I think most of my junk has Ford on it as well. My uncle has a old Ford 3 point rake, but I don't know what is on it. I am almost sure it says Dearborn somewhere as it is red.

 

[Pitch]

was this plate attached to the tractor casting it self? Or on another piece that was attached to the casting. As far as my understanding Dearborn was Fords implement division. Im wondering if that was an ID tag of of some semi permanent mount implement that was left behind.

 

[Leroy]

First off the 9N was made in 39-42, followed by the 2N in 42-47 and The Dearborn Motor Company did not come along till the split with Ferguson in 47 and all the equipment untill that time was Ferguson for the Fords. Ford needed a line of equipment to sell after the split so the Dearborn division was created. That tag sounds like a piece of Dearborn equipment tag (Side mounted Mower?). Wood Bros. was an independant company but sold thru Ford dealers. Later Ford bought it out and that is when they startred adding Dearborn name to the Wood Bros. Eguipment When they started using the Dearborn name is when they went to red equipment at the same time as they started puttimg red on the 8N tractors (1948-1952) and the NAA (1953-1954). In 1955 when the hundred series came out they switched the Dearborn Name away and just whent with the company name of Ford, still red. Then along about 1960? they started changing the red to blue for reasons that I have yet to hear. The English Fordsoms were from the start of WW2 blue as they were not as easily seen from the air as were the previous Orange tractors and The Grey Fordson was only made in Detroit and later Irland and when moved to England the gray was droped. Starting in 1965 tractors were no longer made in the USA but all built in England so they probablu had in place the plan when they started to switch the red to bule to drop American production.

 

[Tony Newsome]

Hi is there a site that I can get a prit of my 14-40 rake ? It needs some parts,Can you help ?

 

[Scott PA]

If it was at the side of the transmission and said 14-4 instead of 14-A it is a mounting bracket for a side mounted sickle bar mower.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I have a old 3pt disk that I am working over. I have the serial number but not with me at the time that I am wrighting this. I need one of the collars that hold the axle assembly to the frame. Does anyone know where I might be able to find parts?