John Deere makes reference to a green and yellow plow in their 1905 sales literature which was 8 years before Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company introduced their Waterloo Boy One-Man Tractor. I was told that the colors yellow and green were chosen because that's the color of corn. John Deere was ready to go into production with their in-house designed "Dain" tractor which had a four cylinder McVicker engine and all-wheel (3) drive through chains and sprockets. They produced a "duotoned" sales brochure that showed "The John Deere All-Wheel Drive Tractor" pulling a three bottom plow away from the camera. They faced one problem. They had no factory as yet to produce this tractor. The Waterloo Boy Engine Company owned a completely self sufficient factory, including a foundary, in Waterloo. It was for sale. John Deere bought it. They decided to scrap their own Dain design and go with the Waterloo Boy as it was cheaper to build and a proven tractor. Along with the deal came the plans and a prototype of what would become the model D. This was a bonanza for Deere. It put them into the tractor business big time. Getting back to color, it seems that the Waterloo Boys were green, yellow and red but that Deere had been using a green and yellow scheme on some of its equipment years before that. The Overtime versions in England used orange in place of the yellow and red. I wonder if anyone has one of those "duotoned" sales brochures for the intended Dain and I wonder what it would show?
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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