Vintage Ads

[Loadstar]

On 6/14/2017 at 9:21 PM, U-C said:

Nice, real Canadian made farm equipment. I think we had once such a swather behind the house in the bush but sadly got sold for scrap, I wasn't happy when that happened, back then I didn't know that it was a Cockshutt but it also could of been a Minneapolis Moline Swather. I took a photo of of that combine too at the show and beside it was its successor.

 

Interesting side by side comparison  of the old and new Cockshutt combines. The old one looks much like the model 132 that my uncle used for years. We were always impressed by those big "aircraft" tires on them. They had their name right on the tires, as seen in this 1953 ad. 

 

[U-C]

8 hours ago, Loadstar said:

Interesting side by side comparison  of the old and new Cockshutt combines. The old one looks much like the model 132 that my uncle used for years. We were always impressed by those big "aircraft" tires on them. They had their name right on the tires, as seen in this 1953 ad. 

 

I wonder what kind of aircraft used that tire, a DC-3 maybe or ww2 bombers. Their is a organic guy in Saskatchewan that grows red fife wheat don't remember what his farm is called only remember seeing him on the Prairie Farm Report and he has a Cockshutt combine. 

[Loadstar]

On 6/17/2017 at 5:10 PM, U-C said:

I wonder what kind of aircraft used that tire, a DC-3 maybe or ww2 bombers. Their is a organic guy in Saskatchewan that grows red fife wheat don't remember what his farm is called only remember seeing him on the Prairie Farm Report and he has a Cockshutt combine. 

 

I am not sure but think those aircraft tires might have been from WWII bombers. And I remember the guy with the Cockshutt combine on PFR too. It was one of the red and yellow machines. 

Now I just happened to find this IH fridge ad in a 1952 magazine to show here. 

[Loadstar]

Since we were talking Mercury cars and trucks on another thread, here is an ad I have from 1953 showing the Mercury pickup truck. They offered the full line  from pickups right up to the big rigs. 

[U-C]

On 6/23/2017 at 10:32 AM, Loadstar said:

Since we were talking Mercury cars and trucks on another thread, here is an ad I have from 1953 showing the Mercury pickup truck. They offered the full line  from pickups right up to the big rigs. 

 

On 6/20/2017 at 11:38 PM, Loadstar said:

I am not sure but think those aircraft tires might have been from WWII bombers. And I remember the guy with the Cockshutt combine on PFR too. It was one of the red and yellow machines. 

Now I just happened to find this IH fridge ad in a 1952 magazine to show here. 

Nice ads Ralph,

Its just amazing what International Harvester manufactured over the years even milking machines at a time, but I am not sure if they sold does Refrigerators in Switzerland. Also like that Mercury ad would be nice finding one of does trucks around here in my area in Manitoba.

I know this isn't an ad but a promotional film from the 30s or early 40s of the RAPID Model P Motor Mower:

 

-Urs

[Loadstar]

On 6/24/2017 at 1:01 PM, U-C said:

Nice ads Ralph,Its just amazing what International Harvester manufactured over the years even milking machines at a time, but I am not sure if they sold does Refrigerators in Switzerland. Also like that Mercury ad would be nice finding one of does trucks around here in my area in Manitoba.

I know this isn't an ad but a promotional film from the 30s or early 40s of the RAPID Model P Motor Mower:

 

-Urs

I guess that motor mower was a big improvement over the scythe alright.My Uncle bought a newer (80s) version and it's name was "BCS". 

A couple of these Fowler crawler tractors showed up locally recently so here is an ad from 1950. There were a few of the tractors sold here but I've never seen the crawler version. 

 

[U-C]

On 6/26/2017 at 8:37 PM, Loadstar said:

I guess that motor mower was a big improvement over the scythe alright.My Uncle bought a newer (80s) version and it's name was "BCS". 

A couple of these Fowler crawler tractors showed up locally recently so here is an ad from 1950. There were a few of the tractors sold here but I've never seen the crawler version. 

 

That is true it was an improvement but the scythe is still being used today in places were the Motor Mower can't go. When my grandfather was farming in the 50's he still had to mow close to an acre with the scythe but the rest of his hay land was cut with an AEBI AM 52 Motor Mower also the green feed and the corn for silage was also cut with that mower. BCS is an Italian company and they make the smallest mower for AEBI now but all the other Motor mowers AEBI make have a hydro transmission. Did that BCS have other attachments? 

This is how the AEBI AM 52 looks like (this mower isn't ours)

Here is another promotional film of the Products of the RAPID Company, the film is from the 60s

Cool ad by the way

-Urs

[Loadstar]

On 6/27/2017 at 10:53 PM, U-C said:

That is true it was an improvement but the scythe is still being used today in places were the Motor Mower can't go. When my grandfather was farming in the 50's he still had to mow close to an acre with the scythe but the rest of his hay land was cut with an AEBI AM 52 Motor Mower also the green feed and the corn for silage was also cut with that mower. BCS is an Italian company and they make the smallest mower for AEBI now but all the other Motor mowers AEBI make have a hydro transmission. Did that BCS have other attachments? 

This is how the AEBI AM 52 looks like (this mower isn't ours)

 

 

-Urs

I think other attachments were available for the BCS cutter but can't say for sure. This one only has the cutter bar, about 2 feet wide as I recall. 

Since we are getting into haying season here is a very vintage ad I have from 1907 for Wood equipment featuring a rake, binder and mower. I have a similar rake here but it is my grandfather's Massey Harris. 

[U-C]

Here is documentary film of the Swiss Tire industry (Firestone's Swiss Factory) showcasing tire manufacturing. The Tractor seen in the film is a Buhrer manufactured by the Fritz Buhrer Traktorenfabrik in Hinwil Switzerland (company still exists only as a parts company www.buehrertraktoren.ch)

-Urs

[Loadstar]

Wow , time has flown by and its been a while. Urs, I don't speak German but the video was interesting. No doubt the rubber tire shortage of WWII was the theme there. 

I'll just throw in this timely ad on a hot summer evening featuring the IH air conditioner for 1955. 

 

[U-C]

On 7/8/2017 at 8:32 PM, Loadstar said:

Wow , time has flown by and its been a while. Urs, I don't speak German but the video was interesting. No doubt the rubber tire shortage of WWII was the theme there. 

I'll just throw in this timely ad on a hot summer evening featuring the IH air conditioner for 1955. 

 

I never knew that IH made AC's.  Yup the first part of the film was about the rubber shortage of WW2. Some tractor companies came up with there own solution about the problem like the Ernst Meili Tractor company that made out of junked car springs steel wheels (the Meili Company at this time only made Doodlebug tractors out of all car makes). About 600 of this steel wheels were made:

Meili tractor (tractor made out of car parts only the final drive was build by Meili and the steel wheels)

a Vevey tractor with Meili Spring wheels

Meili Spring wheels on a Huerlimann tractor back view

-Urs

[Loadstar]

On 7/11/2017 at 6:10 PM, U-C said:

I never knew that IH made AC's.  Yup the first part of the film was about the rubber shortage of WW2. Some tractor companies came up with there own solution about the problem like the Ernst Meili Tractor company that made out of junked car springs steel wheels (the Meili Company at this time only made Doodlebug tractors out of all car makes). About 600 of this steel wheels were made

-Urs

Interesting idea for wheels. I'd guess they rode smoother than the typical steel wheels and lugs we used to see here on tractors. 

Here is a 1950 Esso grease ad. I remember my dad filling the grease gun with a pump and bucket like this one. In fact I still have it somewhere. 

[lightninboy]

I never saw a grease gun filler with a hose on it for greasing.

[Loadstar]

On 7/15/2017 at 2:26 PM, lightninboy said:

I never saw a grease gun filler with a hose on it for greasing.

No , the one I have here has an outlet that you plug the grease gun into. Special filler adaptor is on the grease gun.  Then just pump the gun full. 

This one  from Aro in 1947 was quite a deluxe greasing unit. Not the kind  of thing you would want to be carrying up the ladder of a  combine  though. 

[dale560]

13 minutes ago, Loadstar said:

No , the one I have here has an outlet that you plug the grease gun into. Special filler adaptor is on the grease gun.  Then just pump the gun full. 

This one  from Aro in 1947 was quite a deluxe greasing unit. Not the kind  of thing you would want to be carrying up the ladder of a  combine  though. 

Dads got a little newer one than in the ad we used to use it to grease the plows in the yard. It came from a service station. He has a citi service grease bucket on a hand pump someplace also here.

[ray54]

That type grease pump was what you had to grease a crawler. High volume low pressure,big button head fittings. Always filled the regular grease gun from track roller pump until about 1980. Much neater than sucking grease out of a bucket which was the other way before card board tube got cheap. 

[lightninboy]

Pumps grease from original container without removing cover...how's it do that?...

[U-C]

On 7/14/2017 at 10:30 AM, Loadstar said:

Interesting idea for wheels. I'd guess they rode smoother than the typical steel wheels and lugs we used to see here on tractors. 

Here is a 1950 Esso grease ad. I remember my dad filling the grease gun with a pump and bucket like this one. In fact I still have it somewhere. 

In the book that I have it said does wheels rode about the same as rubber tires. We had a very similar Grease feeler back in Switzerland that we used until we moved in 1997. Here is another spring wheel that only used a little rubber manufactured and patented by the Hans Huerlimann Traktoren und Motorenwerke in the 40s.

 

[dale560]

7 hours ago, U-C said:

In the book that I have it said does wheels rode about the same as rubber tires. We had a very similar Grease feeler back in Switzerland that we used until we moved in 1997. Here is another spring wheel that only used a little rubber manufactured and patented by the Hans Huerlimann Traktoren und Motorenwerke in the 40s.

 

See run flat technology in the 40s already.

[Loadstar]

Since I've been working with a Ford 6000 Commander last week I looked up this old Country Guide ad from 1966 that shows a pretty good example of what the tractor looked like when new. Wheatland version of course with no 3 point hitch but it did have the 10 speed Selectospeed power shift transmission. 

 

[twostepn2001]

This isn't a ad but thought I'd show a LP model 6000. Not gonna say it's rare but just guessing I bet there aren't very many around, especially that still run like this one.

 

[dale560]

There were a fair amount of ford tractors around. People must have been loyal to them. Neighbors have a blue 2000 ford and a fair share of tw tractors around. Now we have three newer blue ones.

[Loadstar]

15 minutes ago, Art From DeLeon said:

I have always been interested in the 6000 series Fords, both the red and gray originals, and the later, improved blue series.

So, to keep with the spirit of the thread, here are some old advertisements, and since one of my other fascinations is with cornpickers, I just had to include a couple of them also

 

 

 

 

 

Art, thanks for those pics and ads for the 6000 Ford. This fellow mentioned he had picked up a couple in Iowa and they had some type of mounting pin up on each side of the front grille casting and I wondered if it was for support arms for some type of row crop equipment. Those were three point, row crop tractors with the wide front axle turned around to the long wheelbase setting. They are headed to the U.K. as well. 

We never saw a lot of the Fords here from that series. Little N series were everywhere as well as quite a few of the bigger Majors. I think that was a British built tractor. Like this one from 1953. 

 

[twostepn2001]

Art, here is another 6000 you've probably seen before. It's sitting right in front of the old Pride refinery on US 277 between Abilene and Hawley. it's a Google pic so it isn't the best. And a question.... who originally built Ford implements like balers and moco's? Has it been New Holland from the start or did someone else build them?

 

[Loadstar]

37 minutes ago, Art From DeLeon said:

I wonder if they were called "Majors" in Canada, because I remember them as being Ford "Dextras" when I was a kid.

 

 

 

 

 

Art, I beleive the Dexta was a slightly newer version of the old Fordson Major that I posted. Although they look very similar. 

And Ford haying equipment was very rare (almost non-existent ) here. Almost as rare as this Dearborn combine from 1951.