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Not Many People Know That!
Five Lane Ends in Bradford is currently the site of Morrisons Supermarket, but how many of the hundreds of shoppers that pass through its doors each day know that it used to be the site of an world-renowned tractor manufacturing company?!
From 1955 until 1982, the American tractor company International Harvester operated from the plant.
Using images from the C H Wood Photographic Archive, held at Bradford Industrial Museum, our new digi story shows the tractor plant at its height, when it employed more than 2,000 people on the 15 acre site.
Perhaps the most famous tractor manufactured in Bradford was the B-250, known as ‘The Little Giant’. Almost 30,000 were produced between 1956 and 1961. Further milestones followed as the plant completed its 50,000th tractor in May 1960 and 100,000th in 1963
For a variety of reasons, the plant was forced to close in 1982.
Watch the video to see more fascinating images of International Harvester in Bradford.
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