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Big Mike

12-28-1998 17:02:08




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OK Guy! Now that you mention it, I think it was a 46!!! How did you know that???Why would I.H. paint demonstrators white anyway???




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Guy Fay

12-28-1998 19:18:38




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 Re: OK Guy!!! in reply to Big Mike , 12-28-1998 17:02:08  
'Cause a white '46 was the featured item and a heavily advertised auction. IH was struggling to build anything with the postwar material shortages and massive pent up demand- they started to build a brand new factory in Wood River Il. and had to cancel it because they couldn't get materials! They bought Louisville and converted it instead.

The white color waws used in 1950 to stick the little tractors out- a topic of conversation. We know a branch house painted a A white in 1940 for a state fair- that may be where it started. IH painted the 100,000th Farmall gold in 1930, so different color tractors were nothing new- but painting several months production white from Louisville was!

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Big Mike

12-29-1998 18:37:12




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 Re: Re: OK Guy!!! in reply to Guy Fay, 12-28-1998 19:18:38  

Seems to me the White M I seen was a 47...
I always figgered after WWII, I.H. wanted to boast sales of tractors...



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Guy Fay

12-29-1998 21:11:53




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 Re: Re: Re: OK Guy!!! in reply to Big Mike, 12-29-1998 18:37:12  
No. For several years after World War II, the demand was so great (especially for H and M) that they built all they could and couldn't keep up with demand. It wasn't until the 1950s that they needed to push hard to sell the big Farmalls. They wouldn't have put together an expensive sales push in the late 40s to sell tractors they couldn't produce.



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Chris M.

12-28-1998 21:09:50




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 Re: Re: OK Guy!!! in reply to Guy Fay, 12-28-1998 19:18:38  
Just one question... Has anyone seen the Gold 100,000th Farmall recently? Did IH promote the tractor or Sell it to a private party?



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Dale

12-29-1998 06:48:44




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 Re: Re: Re: OK Guy!!! in reply to Chris M., 12-28-1998 21:09:50  
I'm sure it will show up soon,all 10 of them!,seriously, is there a serial number that can be traced to a certain tractor?



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Todd Markle

12-30-1998 18:48:20




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: OK Guy!!! in reply to Dale, 12-29-1998 06:48:44  
I asked a similar question a few weeks ago as to what happened to this tractor and nobody apparently knows the answer. As for the serial #,
since they started with serial #501 then the 100,000th should be serial # 100,501.



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Dale

12-30-1998 21:04:17




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: OK Guy!!! in reply to Todd Markle, 12-30-1998 18:48:20  
well,I guess I should have stayed in school!,That makes TOO much sense....they probaly had a nasty habit of taking alot of numbers out of sequence to build experimental prototypes or other projects just to throw us future amatuer historians off!



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Todd Markle

01-04-1999 20:26:58




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: OK Guy!!! in reply to Dale, 12-30-1998 21:04:17  
I looked at the serial # list in my parts book
before I posted, and it doesnt show that they took
anything out of sequence or anything goofy like that. I think I was wrong about the # though-I think it should be #100,500.



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Todd Markle

01-04-1999 20:21:47




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: OK Guy!!! in reply to Dale, 12-30-1998 21:04:17  
I checked my parts book before I posted, and it does not list anything out of sequence or anything goofy like that on the regulars. I think I was wrong about the # though I think it should have been 100,500.



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