Vintage Ads

[farmerboy3]

Heres a page from a Versatile brochure from the 80s showing a model 800 Series II Versatile pulling a double hitch of diskers. They appear to be CCIL, (built right in Manitoba). The liquid fertilizer tank behind is the first I have ever seen used this way. Most guys seeding with diskers just put some granular down the spout with the seed way back then.

i miss the old day of diskers they did an excelant job

[Loadstar]

Heres a page from a Versatile brochure from the 80s showing a model 800 Series II Versatile pulling a double hitch of diskers. They appear to be CCIL, (built right in Manitoba). The liquid fertilizer tank behind is the first I have ever seen used this way. Most guys seeding with diskers just put some granular down the spout with the seed way back then.

i miss the old day of diskers they did an excelant job

Me too. My all time highest yielding wheat field was planted with a Masey 360 disker into black summerfallow.

Now here is a brochure showing a none too common 4 wheel drive from White. They called it the "Plainsman" and I believe it was available in two sizes, the A4T1400 and the A4T1600, I'm thinking it is a Minneapolis Moline but I really should go back and read the brochure.

[farmerboy3]

ya i know dad had some dynamite Durum crops with them now with the air seeder we haven't had a crop half as good

[A554]

Heres a page from a Versatile brochure from the 80s showing a model 800 Series II Versatile pulling a double hitch of diskers. They appear to be CCIL, (built right in Manitoba). The liquid fertilizer tank behind is the first I have ever seen used this way. Most guys seeding with diskers just put some granular down the spout with the seed way back then.

i miss the old day of diskers they did an excelant job

Me too. My all time highest yielding wheat field was planted with a Masey 360 disker into black summerfallow.

Now here is a brochure showing a none too common 4 wheel drive from White. They called it the "Plainsman" and I believe it was available in two sizes, the A4T1400 and the A4T1600, I'm thinking it is a Minneapolis Moline but I really should go back and read the brochure.

Are you able to explain why you were able to grow good crops using the discers?

Here is an ad for Chamberlain 354 tractors and shows a bit more detail of the tandem hitch used to pull two disc ploughs. These disc ploughs could be fitted with seed boxes but my understanding is they were used more for seeding pastures or sowing into rough ground.

[A554]

Some more ads for Ford tractors.

These Ford tractors were imported into Australia from Great Britain in knock-down-form and were assembled using some local content including wheels, tyres, mufflers, air cleaners.

Other models, including the six-cylinder engined 6000 came from USA.

[A554]

Something a bit different. Many of these Mini Mokes were used on farms and later models had bigger wheels to improve ground clearance.

[Loadstar]

Interesting hitch on the Chamberlain and diskers. I can see where it would help eliminate some of the side draft that normally occurs .

That Mini Moke is quite the vehicle. Cruise at 60, get 40 mpg, impressive. But it really needed the bigger tires for farm use.

Back in 56 Ford had a nice line of trucks ...

[Loadstar]

I think I mentioned before how impressive some of Allis Chalmers artwork was in the sixties. Pretty sure I have posted a tractor ad before so here is one showing the Gleaner combines . It may not show in this small version but the name on the side of the truck , "Bringold Bros.".

[Loadstar]

I spoiled the lighting on this one but its a big two page ad for Massey Ferguson pressure controlled hitch on the model 1100 tractor. Pulling two tandem disks. Looks like a pretty simple concept, pulling weight off the front end and transferring it to the rear wheels by means of the three point hitch.

[ozfarm]

Heres a page from a Versatile brochure from the 80s showing a model 800 Series II Versatile pulling a double hitch of diskers. They appear to be CCIL, (built right in Manitoba). The liquid fertilizer tank behind is the first I have ever seen used this way. Most guys seeding with diskers just put some granular down the spout with the seed way back then.

i miss the old day of diskers they did an excelant job

Me too. My all time highest yielding wheat field was planted with a Masey 360 disker into black summerfallow.

Now here is a brochure showing a none too common 4 wheel drive from White. They called it the "Plainsman" and I believe it was available in two sizes, the A4T1400 and the A4T1600, I'm thinking it is a Minneapolis Moline but I really should go back and read the brochure.

Are you able to explain why you were able to grow good crops using the discers?

Here is an ad for Chamberlain 354 tractors and shows a bit more detail of the tandem hitch used to pull two disc ploughs. These disc ploughs could be fitted with seed boxes but my understanding is they were used more for seeding pastures or sowing into rough ground.

u are correct, i had a seedbox laying here until a guy bought it for that purpose

[Steve C.]

I spoiled the lighting on this one but its a big two page ad for Massey Ferguson pressure controlled hitch on the model 1100 tractor. Pulling two tandem disks. Looks like a pretty simple concept, pulling weight off the front end and transferring it to the rear wheels by means of the three point hitch.

I remember Deere had some kind of weight transfer hitch that worked in a similar fashion. Never saw one, but I remember seeing them in brochures. I have no idea how well they worked.

[Loadstar]

I spoiled the lighting on this one but its a big two page ad for Massey Ferguson pressure controlled hitch on the model 1100 tractor. Pulling two tandem disks. Looks like a pretty simple concept, pulling weight off the front end and transferring it to the rear wheels by means of the three point hitch.

I remember Deere had some kind of weight transfer hitch that worked in a similar fashion. Never saw one, but I remember seeing them in brochures. I have no idea how well they worked.

Case had a system called "draft-o-matic". I wonder if it was similar?

Here is a big White (Minneapolis) from the early seventies.

[A554]

Ad for Nuffield tractors from the 1960s.

[A554]

The BMC Mini tractor was an attempt to fill the small tractor market and was very obviously based on the Ferguson TE 20 tractors.

[Loadstar]

Ad for Nuffield tractors from the 1960s.

Those Nuffields really remind me of the blue Fordson Majors sold here in the fifties and sixties. We also had Nuffields. I'm not sure but they might have been sold by Co-op Implements.

Heres another view of the White Plainsman 4 wd from the early seventies.

[A554]

An ad for Fordson Major tractor from 1956. They were very popular tractors here - mainly on bigger dairy farms, orchards and cropping farms.

The early E1A tractors also included kerosene powered engines.

These tractors followed the dark blue E27N Majors that were very popular after WW2

[A554]

Ad from 1960 with Fordson Power Major, Farm Major and Dexta models.

It also includes a crawler sold as a Fordson but probably made by County Tractors?

This ad shows the locally made wheels, mufflers and air cleaners fitted to Fordson in Australia.

Also an ad for Fordson implements.

[Loadstar]

An ad for Fordson Major tractor from 1956. They were very popular tractors here - mainly on bigger dairy farms, orchards and cropping farms.

The early E1A tractors also included kerosene powered engines.

These tractors followed the dark blue E27N Majors that were very popular after WW2

I think those post war Majors were sometimes called "Longhorns" here because of the headlight arrangement.

I didn't have to look far into my Country Guides to find a few Fordson Major ads. Here from 1953 we see it in wheel and tracked version. Note the price.

In the same magazine an ad for a front end loader to fit the Major.

[Loadstar]

In the same Country Guide, an ad for the Ford Jubilee tractor.

[A554]

The Ford Jubilee tractor was not sold here, at least I haven't seen any.

The Ford 8401 was developed and sold in Australia only from 1980. The skid unit for this tractor was built in England using a Ford 7700 back end together with a de-rated TW-10 engine producing 109hp.

The tractors were built up in Australia using local wheels, tyres and cab.

The 8401 was designed to compete with the Chamberlain 80 series tractors. The first tractors were fitted with drawbar only and later tractors had a red stripe and three-point linkage was an option.

[A554]

Another image of the Ford 8401.

[Loadstar]

Now those are some different Fords that I have never seen even advertised here. And the Jubilee Ford refers to the year 1953 being the 50th anniversary for Ford. I think the tractors, cars and trucks from that year might be a lilttle more collectible for that reason.

Here is a duplex hitch ad from Caterpillar showing several different implements behind the old Caterpillars back in 1953.

[Loadstar]

Making a little hay back in 1953 with a McCormick 45 baler and an M Farmall tractor up front.

[farmerboy3]

man loadstar you must have quite a stash of old ads

[farmall57]

They should have stacked the bales on the trailer from left to right instead of right to left....that baler makes the same consistent length bales that my IH baler makes