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Kōrero: Investment

Selling tractors

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Selling tractors

The post-war years saw considerable investment in farming as international demand for exports remained high and returned soldiers settled on the land. Here a tractor salesman discusses the merits of a Ford tractor at the John W. Ford dealership in Auckland in 1948.

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira

Reference: 4968 KN

by Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

Permission of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Brent Layton, Investment – Post-war investment, 1940 to 1980, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24120/selling-tractors (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Brent Layton, i tāngia i te 3 March 2010.