Vintage Ads

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I don't know if it is a problem with this page or with my online album at fotki but it seems most of the ad pictures I linked from fotki are not showing up here now. Not on my computer anyway. I will try one from another album at webshots and see if it works any better.

Some will recognize that White two wheel drive as an Oliver. The lower 4 WD is I believe a Minneapolis. This would have been the early seventies before the Field Boss White tractors were introduced.

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This is not an add, but is vintage.

IH book to help sales sell more tractors.

found this one at a antique tractor show.

Ray

Ray, it sure looks like advertising to me.

Regarding Case-o-matic, I never drove one but know there were a few of them sold here. I'd think it would be handy for light duty chores but probably not so well suited to heavy field work. My 730 is the standard gear drive.

Here is an ad for Case-o-rama 1958.

I would ;assume that the Case would outpull the tractor it is hooked to. That tractors tires are mounted backwards!!!!

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I don't know if it is a problem with this page or with my online album at fotki but it seems most of the ad pictures I linked from fotki are not showing up here now. Not on my computer anyway. I will try one from another album at webshots and see if it works any better.

Some will recognize that White two wheel drive as an Oliver. The lower 4 WD is I believe a Minneapolis. This would have been the early seventies before the Field Boss White tractors were introduced.

Loadstar, it appears most of your images are now thumbnails.

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An ad from 1956 for the Super AW6 tractor built in Australia. These tractors were built in Geelong, Victoria and based on the W6.

This ad highlights the "torque control device" to maintain constant speeds under varying loads - a fancy name for the governor.

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An ad for the Fiat 411R tractor from 1959.

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I would ;assume that the Case would outpull the tractor it is hooked to. That tractors tires are mounted backwards!!!!

I never noticed that but by golly you are right. Guess the proof readers missed that little detail.

Here is another IH ad from 1956 showing an IH 300 with matching front end loader. A handy little piece of machinery on any farm. And I bet there are a few of them still working today.

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I couldn't pass up a chance to post this ad of my old favourite line, Cockshutt for 1956.. The model 50 was the big one, the top of the line. I used to drive one just like this, only a diesel. The smoothest running old six cylinder diesel I have ever heard.

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I couldn't pass up a chance to post this ad of my old favourite line, Cockshutt for 1956.. The model 50 was the big one, the top of the line. I used to drive one just like this, only a diesel. The smoothest running old six cylinder diesel I have ever heard.

We had a Case 900 with the inline Bosch pump ,apparently dealers would idle them down to about 600 rpm and stand a quarter on edge on the hood to demo how smooth they run ,I could never make it work but I may have been the shaky one.

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"Loadstar" ,do you have any for the 550 utility Cockshut ,my son has one I dove it 40 years ago when I worked for Friggstad Man. seems to have the same transmission as my Oliver 33. 40 may be an over statement but barely

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We had a Case 900 with the inline Bosch pump ,apparently dealers would idle them down to about 600 rpm and stand a quarter on edge on the hood to demo how smooth they run ,I could never make it work but I may have been the shaky one.

I never ran a 900 but sure did like the 930, those old 401 engines sounded great. Standing on the platform that muffler was so close you could almost touch it. And the sound of the big six at a laid back 1650 rpm under load,, smooth.

Re: the 550 Cockshutt. Pretty sure I have some ads for it. For now all I have is this photo of one I passed up at a local farm auction about ten years ago. Really nice condition and sold for around $2000 as I recall.

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"Loadstar" ,do you have any for the 550 utility Cockshut ,my son has one I dove it 40 years ago when I worked for Friggstad Man. seems to have the same transmission as my Oliver 33. 40 may be an over statement but barely

This is the big two page ad (too big to scan) from the March, 1961 Country Guide showing the Cockshutt line of tractors. The 550 in this ad has the "leaf style" fenders , different from the full fenders on the one I posted from the auction sale.

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An ad for Caterpillar toolbar from 1959. This equipment was designed for use with D2 and D4 tractors.

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An ad for Caterpillar equipment from 1959. This was designed for use with D4 and D6 tractors.

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I couldn't pass up a chance to post this ad of my old favourite line, Cockshutt for 1956.. The model 50 was the big one, the top of the line. I used to drive one just like this, only a diesel. The smoothest running old six cylinder diesel I have ever heard.

Loadstar, I was able to operate a Cockshutt 50 in 1979 when I was in Manitoba. That tractor had a 6 cylinder gas engine and it was the smoothest tractor engine I have ever driven.

As I recall the Cockshutt had 6 forward and 2 reverse gears, all selected with one gearstick through a double H arrangement.

The tractor was used mainly for spraying, rockpicking, hauling gravity wagons and driving augers.

I was impressed that it was fitted with power steering for such an old tractor.

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"Loadstar" ,look at the rear wheel on the 550 I'm sure that is the one in the tug -o-war with the Case ,the one my son has is a small utility tractor I am not sure possibly they were all green so accually they were Oliver tractors and not true Cockshut .

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"Loadstar" ,look at the rear wheel on the 550 I'm sure that is the one in the tug -o-war with the Case ,the one my son has is a small utility tractor I am not sure possibly they were all green so accually they were Oliver tractors and not true Cockshut .

I wonder if the tractor you refer to is really an Oliver, not a Cockshutt. The 550 Cockshutt was produced from 58 to 61 and that series was the last of the "real Cockshutt" tractors. No connection to Oliver and they were never painted green to the best of my knowledge, always Harvest Gold. A few may have been sold by CCIL in their orange/red paint scheme. After White took control in 62 there were no more true Cockshutts, just yellow (later red) Oliver tractors.

The 550 Cockshutt in my ad and auction sale photo was not so much a utility style as they had the high (34 or 38 inch) rear wheels. The smaller 540 was a utility type with the little 28 inch rear wheels.

From the same 1961 Country Guide as my Cockshutt ad came from , here is an Oliver ad featuring the big model 1800.

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Another ad for a crawler tractor, but this time not a Cat. Its an Allis Chalmers HD-6 from 1956.

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And for the construction side AC offered the real heavy machines. Like this HD-21 crawler at 57250 pounds of ground shaking power!

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Ad for New Holland hay making machines from late 1950s.

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An ad for British made Bamford hay making machines.

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Heres a 1958 ad for some of the IH McCormick harvesting equipment that was typical here at the time. The 163 swather would cut the crops and lay them in a nice swath to dry and in a few days you would hit the field with your 141 IH combine to pick the swaths up. Of course first you would have to remove that reel and install the optional swath pickup attachment.

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I recently posted this ad for Fiat 411R tractors and while doing some reading on Cockshutts, I discovered that Cockshutt had sold the Fiat 411 tractor as a Cockshutt.

This comes from 'Cockshutt the complete story', a book compiled by the International Cockshutt Club Inc.1999.

It ssems that Cockshutt entered an arrangement with Fiat and distribution of the tractors started in late 1959.

The Cockshutt 411R was a 138.5 cubic inch, 4 cylinder diesel and rated as a 3-plow tractor.

The 411RG was a gas powered tractor with a 116 cubc inch 4 cykinder gasoline engine.

The book reports the tractors were painted in a 'Harvest Gold' with 'red belly' configuration. It is also noted that import and sales figures for these tractors are unknown.

Anybody know any more about these tractors?

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This comes from 'Cockshutt the complete story', a book compiled by the International Cockshutt Club Inc.1999.

It ssems that Cockshutt entered an arrangement with Fiat and distribution of the tractors started in late 1959.

The Cockshutt 411R was a 138.5 cubic inch, 4 cylinder diesel and rated as a 3-plow tractor.

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Anybody know any more about these tractors?

I have that same book and its a good one. Thats about all I know about that vintage of Fiat built Cockshutts. Never saw one in real life but later on in the mid sixties the 1250 and 1350 Cockshutts were (I believe) Fiat built tractors . The sheet metal and number changed in a few years to the 12 and 1370. There were a few of them sold around here and they were regarded as a good little chore tractor.

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The 60 series McCormick tractors seem pretty popular on this forum. Here is an ad from early 1959 offering incentives to buy now.

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An ad for a David Brown 2D tractor designed for use in row crops and vegetable growing operations.