Mowin' machines: fans preserve Plymouths-turned-Silver Kings.

Farm Collector, January, 2003 by Shellhouse, Jan

Henry Ford thought enough of the Silver King tractors to purchase two just to tear apart and study. Of the Silver King brand, Ford is reported to have said, "They were the best on the market at the time but had the worst marketing program of any company."

Silver Kings were manufactured by the Fate-Root-Heath Co. beginning in 1933 in Plymouth, Ohio. Initially they were called "Plymouths." According to historians of the brand, J.D. Fate arrived in Plymouth in the late 1880s to begin building clay-extruding equipment for the manufacture of bricks. In 1909, Fate ...