FORDSON BRINGS PROSPERITY.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 63, 17 March 1925, Page 15

FORDSON BRINGS PROSPERITY.

Up-to-date farmers are discovering that scientific efficiency is becoming increasingly, necessary on the farm, and the Fordson is a practical, sensible, and workable farm power unit, low in cost, low in upkeep.

No Fordson farmer would go back to horse any more than the average farm owner would return to the wooden plough.

He knows that " it costs £548 5s 8d per year to keep six horses and equipment, or £592 9s 8d to keep seven horses and equipment.

" Bad management of the team alone will cause a debit balance. Every day the team is idle it costs the farmer somewhere in the vicinity of £2 without return." The Fordson is also the solution of the farmers' labour troubles, and a feature of its many good qualities is' the fact that it costs nothing when not in use. Mr. J. C. Milnes, the Ford dealer, and agent, of Levin, can tell you all about this new and modernised farming machine. It is a good investment.

New Machines; New Workshop Methods.—Mr. J. C. Milnes, the popular Ford dealer, has a big heart; he achieved something that filled Levin people with wonderment when he first built his big fireproof concrete Ford garage in Oxford street, and he continues to shovv a wonderful spirit of progress. In adding to his workshop plant a complete set of the famous -K. R. Wilson machines, he is going to revolutionise Ford car repair work. The ostensible object of installing the new' plant is to. lessen costs to himself and his clients. ■ He will cut the usual car repair bill in half, and do the work in a third ,of the .time that it formerly took under old methods. Mr. W. H. Bird, workshop foreman, demonstrated to our representative the other day that, fitting crank shaft, bearings and refitting new pistons, which usually ■necessitates reboring the cylinders, could be carried out by the new combination machine in a few minutes and with the most accurate detail. A special instrument enables the engineers to determine to th.c thousandth part of an inch what size a cylinder requires to be bored You then jet the boring tool to the exact size, and itlie machine does the'rest without human aid. The great advantage of this method is that every cylinder is true and ready to develop the maximum power with a minimum consumption of fuel, and can be rebored many times without impairing the efficiency of the engine, and at the same time procure standard Ford pistons to fit.

Appliances are also provided for regrinding valves and valve seatinga and there are also instruments for the accurate timing, etc., so essential to economic running:.

Apart from cutting repair costs, an engine now leaves the workshop with a guarantee that it is in every respect equal to a new tone. This makes the) old saying true that one can. save money by spending it, for it is much cheaper to run a car with a perfect engine than one that is wasting both oil and petrol through defects that have developed through wear.