Remco press

Says easy to own, but in 1938, minimum wage in the US was 25¢ an hour and the average hourly wage was 55¢ an hour. I expect not many of these made it into a home mechanic's garage or workshop.

Vintagemachinery.org has a short history of Remco/Manley.

 

Rise and fall of Ford tractors

 From a book on general technology as it looked in 1986. Wow that's 40 years ago! Ford had just purchased New Holland. The Ford-New Holland company went on to be purchased by Fiat in 1991, phasing out the Ford name by the late 90s. New Holland and Case then merged to become CNH and the Ford name was long gone. 

  Ford had gotten into tractors in 1917, rapidly becoming a industry leader with the Fordson and later the 9N, 2N and 8N tractors...