[AT] Training Within Industry in WW2 tractor factories

[James Peck]

We both agree. Frank Perkins, involved with the development of diesel engines, visited the US in 1944 on behalf of the British Ministry of Labour to see TWI for himself and transfer some of it to the UK.

Perkins Diesel was bought by Massey Ferguson in 1958 and supplied engines to them for both farm and construction equipment. Perkins is currently a division of Caterpillar.

The Detroit Ferguson, later Massey Fergusson, plant is about my age, post WW2 boomer. At some point of time they would have been installing Perkins diesel and gasoline engines into tractors at Detroit. Coventry, Beauvais, des Moines,  Brantford, etc.

Harry Ferguson was involved with Ford-Ferguson tractor production at the Rouge Complex during WW2 and gifted/sold one to FDR. 2Ns were supplied to use in moving aircraft. It is tantalizing thinking that Harry Ferguson might have used TWI as a springboard to becoming a tractor manufacturer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Engines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Within_Industry

The TWI link says that Toyota had a copy of a TWI training manual at NUMMI to prove that what they were doing was US inspired.

Posted in another group  There was more to TWI than that!


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