Vintage Ads

[Old Binder Guy]

Kevin,

I've never seen a Port Huron gas tractor image before. Thanks for sending that along.

Ralph,

I'd not noticed that rear spring arrangement either, on the back of that 1931 Ford Truck. Interesting.

This first color engraving is from one of my Port Huron catalogs.

This must have been a Port Huron dealer's thing as it is a cardboard cutout of a very early Port Huron, and I borrowed it from SmokStak.

This last one isn't an ad, but a photo of Roger Byrne and myself in Minnesota about three years ago. The unusual part of this Port Huron steam engine we're operating, it isn't a tandem compound, as was bragged about in the Port Huron ad I posted last night. This is one of their rare 20 hp simple engines. I believe there are two still existing. And all of their simple engines were equipped with a piston valve, as evidenced by the smaller "head" at the left of the large one. Gary

[Loadstar]

Here is a cool ad:

Looks like a 4 or 560 Farmall, maybe out of the Country Guide magazine although I don't recognize it and I have most of them from that time. This is a 660 IH from 1961.

[Loadstar]

This last one isn't an ad, but a photo of Roger Byrne and myself in Minnesota about three years ago. The unusual part of this Port Huron steam engine we're operating, it isn't a tandem compound, as was bragged about in the Port Huron ad I posted last night. This is one of their rare 20 hp simple engines. I believe there are two still existing. And all of their simple engines were equipped with a piston valve, as evidenced by the smaller "head" at the left of the large one. Gary

Gary, I have a matching Port Huron threshing machine to go with that tractor. From 1906 Canadian Thresherman and Farmer magazine.

[664 CDN]

Looks like a 4 or 560 Farmall, maybe out of the Country Guide magazine although I don't recognize it and I have most of them from that time. This is a 660 IH from 1961.

Here is a cool ad:

That`s 660 Ralph, you can tell by the planetary final drive on the rear axle.

Ray

[Kevingweq]

Here is a cool ad:

Devon Is there a chance you could make that picture a little bigger ?? , My tired eyes just can't make it out

Thank you

Kevin

[Loadstar]

Looks like a 4 or 560 Farmall, maybe out of the Country Guide magazine although I don't recognize it and I have most of them from that time. This is a 660 IH from 1961.

Here is a cool ad:

That`s 660 Ralph, you can tell by the planetary final drive on the rear axle.

Ray

Ray, I guess I didn't word my reply very well but I was actually referring to the ad that DevonW posted. It was a bit small to tell just what was on the ad. I knew mine was one of the "big ones" and remembered about the planetaries.

Here is another similar ad showing the rugged TA available on the 60 series tractor.

[George 2]

That 560 that is in Devon's picture is a Brass Tacks demonstrator. Notice it has the wide demonstrator seat and the demonstrator decals all over it. I think IH1468 had one at one time with the wide seat. Maybe it was someone else in the Noblesville, Indiana area.

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph,

This is a picture of the IH 660 Standard Diesel I used to own years ago. My kids are "pushing 50" so that helps date the photo here. This is that old film with the lines that was "non-glossy" paper used with these Brownie Hawkeye cameras.

This was Farmall Kid, or son Mike, plowing with it in circa 1978.

Ray,

I couldn't remember, but uncle Audie farmed with a 560 and his son Fred farmed with a 660. Did the 560 Standard diesel NOT have planetarys in the rear wheels? I was remembering it might, but that's been many decades ago. I have no photos of their tractors. They both put M&W turbochargers on them. Gary

[Loadstar]

That 560 that is in Devon's picture is a Brass Tacks demonstrator. Notice it has the wide demonstrator seat and the demonstrator decals all over it. I think IH1468 had one at one time with the wide seat. Maybe it was someone else in the Noblesville, Indiana area.

I have never heard of the Brass Tacks demonstrator.

Here is a few of the older Farmalls from 1949. The whole line from the Cub to the M.

[664 CDN]

Ray,

I couldn't remember, but uncle Audie farmed with a 560 and his son Fred farmed with a 660. Did the 560 Standard diesel NOT have planetarys in the rear wheels? I was remembering it might, but that's been many decades ago. I have no photos of their tractors. They both put M&W turbochargers on them. Gary

Gary, I have never seen a 560 standard tread with planetary final drive, don,t think they had them.

Ralph I guess I didn`t read the last line before posting.

Ray

[Loadstar]

Ray,

I couldn't remember, but uncle Audie farmed with a 560 and his son Fred farmed with a 660. Did the 560 Standard diesel NOT have planetarys in the rear wheels? I was remembering it might, but that's been many decades ago. I have no photos of their tractors. They both put M&W turbochargers on them. Gary

Gary, I have never seen a 560 standard tread with planetary final drive, don,t think they had them.

Ray

Ray, while I have never owned, or even driven one, I was always led to believe that those external hubs on the axles of the 660 were the planetary drive hubs. The 560 apparently went with a different final drive arrangement. You can see those hubs on the tractor in this 1961 ad.

[George 2]

Ralph: The Brass Tacks Demonstrators were used in the US midwest during the Farmall 450 and 560 days. I have seen them at various Red Power Roundups. There are lots of pictures of them in the various books written about IH. As far as I can tell, there were no specially marked demonstrators in eastern Canada and from what you say also in western Canada. It was the same in eastern Canada with the Golden Demonstrators of 1970. I have never seen one in Ontario and I was around lots of them at farm shows back then.

[Loadstar]

Ralph: The Brass Tacks Demonstrators were used in the US midwest during the Farmall 450 and 560 days. I have seen them at various Red Power Roundups. There are lots of pictures of them in the various books written about IH. As far as I can tell, there were no specially marked demonstrators in eastern Canada and from what you say also in western Canada. It was the same in eastern Canada with the Golden Demonstrators of 1970. I have never seen one in Ontario and I was around lots of them at farm shows back then.

George, that is new information for me. I searched a little further on google and learned even more about the Brass Tacks Demonstrators. Never saw any out this way but they were a bit before my time. I did see plenty of Case, 70 series Golden Demonstrators in the early seventies.

Here is something I haven't posted much lately. A color ad from 1979 for the Red Power Showdown.

[664 CDN]

Ralph, I drove a 1086 with a 720 plow a one of those red Power demo`s in 79.

Dad bought a 300U in 1955 that was a demo with 50hrs on the tac.

Ray

[Loadstar]

Ralph, I drove a 1086 with a 720 plow a one of those red Power demo`s in 79.

Dad bought a 300U in 1955 that was a demo with 50hrs on the tac.

Ray

Ray, we did not have a nearby IH dealer in 79 or maybe I might have got to drive a demo 1086 too.

Here is something completely different. What the well dressed farmer would have worn in 1947. GWG was the big name in work wear for years. Coveralls for full coverage or overalls with just the straps over the shoulders for warmer weather. That style seemed to be the most common in stripes or blue denim.

Nice barn in the background of this ad.

[Kevingweq]

I would Imagine the blue denim with the "snobak" lining had a flannel inner lining ??

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph,

This photo is so bad, I don't know why I keep it in my files? It was taken in 1964 by Sharon when I'd parked the TD-18A outside our gate at the farm. The reason I posted it, I'm wearing my two tone gray IH coveralls that I wore when I worked at Bourke Motor & Implement. I think I had three pairs of them. I was wearing one of them the day JFK was assassinated. I guess I was just trying to join in on the "workwear" conversation you started? Gary

[Loadstar]

Not sure about the lining on those coveralls Kevin but it sounds like a good idea. Gary, I guess those IH coveralls would be a real collectors item if you still had them today. I remember as a kid having winter coat that had the Cockshutt insignia sewn onto the back. How I wish I had saved that but it is long gone.

By 1950 GWG was offering sanforized and shrunk "Cowboy Kings" denim work wear which, no doubt, these two cowboys are wearing as they rope a calf out in the rain.

[Grabatire]

When we were dealing with all the stuff an 82 year old fella collects, I found a well used 6ft. Cockshutt tape measure in dads tool box. It now holds a place of honour in mine, and on down the line I hope.

I had the pleasure of touring the GWG Plant in Edmonton in 1966. Quite an operation. After the tour we all got a pair of our size jeans for $5.00 and an unlined jacket was available for $3.50. I couldn,t afford the jacket.

[Ron Cook]

Old, short, fat guys can't get in and out of coveralls. Lined or not.

Ron

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When we were dealing with all the stuff an 82 year old fella collects, I found a well used 6ft. Cockshutt tape measure in dads tool box. It now holds a place of honour in mine, and on down the line I hope.

I had the pleasure of touring the GWG Plant in Edmonton in 1966. Quite an operation. After the tour we all got a pair of our size jeans for $5.00 and an unlined jacket was available for $3.50. I couldn,t afford the jacket.

I noticed on the ad that their base was Edmonton. That must have been an interesting tour Dave. Lucky you still have a Cockshutt tape measure. Notice that spell check does not recognize "Cockshutt" or "Farmall" here.

I wonder if this driver on the Millionth Farmall is wearing IH coveralls in this 1948 ad?

[George 2]

This had to be an early 1948 advertizement . Note that the Cub came out in late 1947 and the B was not stopped until the C came out in mid 1948. Excellent posting!!

[Loadstar]

This had to be an early 1948 advertizement . Note that the Cub came out in late 1947 and the B was not stopped until the C came out in mid 1948. Excellent posting!!

Thanks George. I just took the date off the magazine that the ad appeared in.

Here is a newer Cub and Cub cadet ad from the 1964 buyer's guide.

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph,

Again I have no ads, but have photos. My dad bought a 1947 Farmall Cub that a neighbor used in his milking barn. I believe it had a front blade on it, which we didn't get, and it struck concrete somewhere that broke the front end out of it. That casting is also a part of the lower radiator tank. Dad bought it from Bourke Motor as is, and welded it back together. I mowed and raked lots of hay with that old Cub and I cultivated lots of garden with it. It is the near, left Cub in this picture. Uncle Charlie got a Farmall Cub as well, some time after we got ours. It is the rear Cub in this July 1950 haying photo of cousin Alvin, Chuck and brother Bill.

Bought new and not broken in two, Dad is mowing grass with his Cub Cadet he bought in 1964. It was the second one sold at Bourke Motor in Lewistown. My cousin George Machler bought the first one they sold. I sure wish I still had those two "Cubs!" Gary

[Loadstar]

Ralph,

Uncle Charlie got a Farmall Cub as well, some time after we got ours. It is the rear Cub in this July 1950 haying photo of cousin Alvin, Chuck and brother Bill.

Bought new and not broken in two, Dad is mowing grass with his Cub Cadet he bought in 1964. It was the second one sold at Bourke Motor in Lewistown. My cousin George Machler bought the first one they sold. I sure wish I still had those two "Cubs!" Gary

Gary, those cubs sure would look right at home in your collection. Great pictures.

I have a little bigger IH tractor on this Farmhand ad from 1954. That snow blower attachment is interesting. The auxiliary engine would make for a heavy front end and not much traction. The belt pulley optional drive sounds good but no "live drive" . Blower would stop when you push in the clutch to back up.