Williams, Michael. British Tractors for World Farming : An Illustrated History. Blandford Press , 1980.
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Ford
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Marianne Moore | Elizabeth Bishop
, who wrote on MM
on several occasions, mentioned her in a letter of advice to a would-be poet as one of the great poets of our own century, who should be read... |
| Textual Features | Stella Gibbons | The plot opens when the young, urban, highly civilised, bossy London heroine, Flora Poste, decides (when her parents die leaving her an unexpectedly small income) to live off her exaggeratedly rustic Sussex relations. (Flora admires... |
Timeline
1902: Dan Albone of England designed the first...
Building item
1902
Dan Albone
of England designed the first lightweight, paraffin-fuelled farm tractor.
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
50
1958: The Ford Motor Company introduced the Ed...
Building item
1958
The Ford Motor Company
introduced the Edsel.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
273
1960: The ten most heavily advertised products...
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1960
The ten most heavily advertised products in Britain this year were five detergents (Persil, Tide, Omo, Daz, and Surf), two instant coffees (Nescafé, Maxwell House), one foodstuff (Stork margarine), one beer (Guinness), and one make...
June 1968: Machinists at the Ford plant at Dagenham...
National or international item
June 1968
Machinists at the Ford
plant at Dagenham in Essex went on strike for equal pay: a strike which was important in the growth of the Women's Liberation Movement.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
5
May 1969: Following the Ford strike at Dagenham the...
National or international item
May 1969
Following the Ford
strike at Dagenham the previous year, the National Joint Action Committee on Women's Equal Rights
held a demonstration.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
5
29 May 1970: The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of...
National or international item
29 May 1970
The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of treatment for both sexes in employment contracts.
Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
144
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2025.
2 (1970): 1366-75
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
164, 176-9
Kessler-Harris, Alice. “Into the blue”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 10-11, July 2003, p. 32. 32
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