From 1946 tractors were also built in Kilmarnock, with a large Massey-Harris factory present on the outskirts of the town.

Massey-Harris merged with the Ferguson Company in 1953 and brought together their twin skills in harvesting machinery and tractor design to produce one of the world ’ s most powerful forces in farm equipment.

A Massey-Harris reaper-binder pulled by a tractor ( Rutland, England, 2008 )

A standard-tread 1948 Massey Harris Model 20 | Massey-Harris 20

Massey-Harris revolutionized grain harvesting in 1938 with the world's first self-propelled combine-the No. 20.

The final generation of Massey-Harris tractors from immediately after World War II until the name change to Massey Ferguson in 1958 included the 25 horsepower M-H 22 series, the 35 horsepower M-H 33 series, the 45 horsepower M-H 44 series and the 55 horsepower M-H 55 series.

* Massey-Harris No. 15 Stiff Tooth Cultivator

Lawren Harris was born on October 23, 1885 to Thomas Morgan Harris and Annie J. Stewart ( daughter of pastor William Boyd Stewart ) in Brantford, Ontario into a wealthy family – the Harrises of the Massey-Harris industrialists.

*** Walter Edward Massey ( 1864 – 1901 ), president of Massey-Harris

* 1953 Massey-Harris Model 44

His paternal grandfather was president of Massey-Harris, the farm-machinery company.

The combination of water and rail helped Brantford develop from a farming community into a blue collar industrial city based on the agriculture implement industry centred around companies such as Massey-Harris, Verity Plow and the Cockshutt Plow Company.

Massey was born in Toronto, Ontario, as the son of Anna ( née Vincent ) and Chester Daniel Massey, the owner of the Massey-Harris Co. ( predecessor company to the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company ) and the patriarch of one of the city's wealthiest families.

By the next year, UofT's social and athletic facility was complete and dedicated in memory of Massey's grandfather, Hart Massey, as Hart House ; there, while he headed Massey-Harris Co., Massey participated as an amateur actor and director in the building's theatre.

This group received monetary support from Harris ( heir to the Massey-Harris farm machinery fortune ) and Dr. James MacCallum.

In 1937, the Australian-born Thomas Carroll, working for Massey-Harris in Canada, perfected a self-propelled model and in 1940 a lighter-weight model began to be marketed widely by the company.

In 1910, the business was acquired by Massey-Harris Co. Ltd, and became a subsidiary of that Canadian company, founded by Daniel Massey in 1847.

It was produced at two sites ; from April at Cadillac and from July at Massey-Harris.

Established " when the operations of four major Canadian bicycle manufacturers amalgamated: H. A. Lozier, Massey-Harris, Goold, and Welland Vale Manufacturing.

Over the years, he gained control or had significant positions in many of his country's greatest companies such as Canadian Food Products, Massey-Harris, Orange Crush Ltd., Standard Chemical, Dominion Stores, British Columbia Forest Products Limited, Dominion Tar & Chemical Co., Standard Broadcasting, and Hollinger Mines Limited.

Massey-Harris Company logo c. 1952 graphics generated In 1891, Massey Manufacturing merged with the A. Harris, Son & Co. Ltd. to become Massey-Harris Company Limited and became the largest agricultural equipment maker in the British Empire.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

Large hotels were built during the Belle Époque ; cog-railways, built early in the 20th century, brought tourists to ever higher elevations, with the Jungfraubahn terminating at the Jungfraujoch after going through a tunnel in Eiger.

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

Amathus was built on the coastal cliffs with a natural harbor and flourished at an early date, soon requiring several cemeteries.

Aalto's early experiments with wood and his move away from a purist modernism would be tested in built form with the commission to design Villa Mairea ( 1939 ) in Noormarkku, the luxury home of the young industrialist couple Harry and Maire Gullichsen.

Unlike most of the early LAN systems, AppleTalk was not built using the archetypal Xerox XNS system.

The first ships protected by iron armour were Kobuksons built in the early 15th century.

The first ships protected by iron armour were Kobuksons built in the early 15th century.

Some early AGP boards used graphics processors built around PCI and were simply bridged to AGP.

One early example is the founding in 1877 of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in Britain to protect the built heritage, this society continues to be active today.

The mausoleums of the early Ottoman sultans are located in Bursa and the numerous edifices built throughout the Ottoman period constitute the city's main landmarks.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Thackeray built the party by forming temporary alliances with nearly all of Maharashtra's political parties.

An inscription on a stone built into the wall of a summer house in Lancarffe furnishes proof of a settlement in Bodmin in the early Middle Ages.

Railroads were built early, easing the collection and transportation of perishable sugar cane.

A channel of the Çarşamba river once flowed between the two mounds, and the settlement was built on alluvial clay which may have been favourable for early agriculture.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).

Large swaths of the city's residential areas away from the lake are characterized by brick bungalows built from the early 20th century through the end of World War II.

In his early twenties Caravaggio moved to Rome where, during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, many huge new churches and palazzi were being built and paintings were needed to fill them.

In the early times only the art of pottery and terracotta developed, but from the seventh century onwards, a large number of temples and images were also built on account of the intensified religious passions and the accumulation of wealth in cities.

Clippers were built for seasonal trades such as tea, where an early cargo was more valuable, or for passenger routes.