Vintage Ads

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That,s a type 12 cab on a Ford built artillery tractor.

A lot of small body builders made the body,s for the wireless, ambulance, wreckers etc.

Ray

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Unfortuntely I don't have any ads for those army trucks.

I do have a few IH like this 1958 ad showing a BC series medium duty truck. Notice the A series pickup in the background.

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Unloading a new 504 IH tractor on the farm in 1963.

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An ad for Massey Ferguson 750 combine from mid 1970s. I operated a new 750 in Manitoba in 1979.

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Ad for Massey Ferguson tractors from mid 1970s.

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I well remember those white top, yellow wheel Massey combines. I drove a 510 Western Special back in those days. That whole line of combines was very popular out here.

Back in June of 71 John Deere was offering cheap horsepower in their 4000 tractor. This wasn't the ad I had in mind as I seem to recall one that listed a price of $9500 which put it at a hundred dollars per horsepower, a bargain in those times.

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I well remember those white top, yellow wheel Massey combines. I drove a 510 Western Special back in those days. That whole line of combines was very popular out here.

Back in June of 71 John Deere was offering cheap horsepower in their 4000 tractor. This wasn't the ad I had in mind as I seem to recall one that listed a price of $9500 which put it at a hundred dollars per horsepower, a bargain in those times.

Loadstar the guys I worked for had a pair of 510s before a s/hand 760 and the 750 I operated.

I recall they commented that the cabs, in particular a/c, made the 760/750 combines better machines to operate.

For me the 760/750 were a quite a step up from 12 foot cut pull type combine behind a Massey Ferguson 175 tractor.

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Ads for Allis Chalmers tractors from mid 1970s.

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An ad showing the Case and David Brown tractors in the mid 70s at the time of the joining of these two brands into Case.

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Still can't get the quote feature to work on replies here but in reference to your ac in combines comment, yes, life was a lot better in an air conditioned Massey combine. The 510 never gave me any trouble with ac but the later 550, I think I spent a good many hours in the heat without AC. :-(

Massey used to advertise their balers as requiring less grease than the other makes as seen in this ad from 69. It seemed to work for them.

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Another ad from 69 when Cockshutt and Minneapolis were soon to be absorbed under the name of White. I think it was not long after that both names disappeared to be replaced by White.

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I am reposting the photos of the models Ron from West Australia has made. These were posted just before the site had problems.

The first are a model of the Chamberlain John Deere 1051 pull type harvester with a swinging cutting platform.

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Ron's models of Chamberlain tractors and implements.

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A photo of triple WD9 tractors fitted with Perkins 6.354 engines.

Ron's model of a Shearer disc plough, a model of the triple WD9s and the triple WD9s with 4 ploughs.

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A few of these Russian tractors (Belarus) showed up here in the seventies. They seemed a little crude compared to our North American tractors but I think mechanically they were pretty good. I don't hear much about them anymore.

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Good old Case model 900 disker from the early sixties. I still have one of these, a 12 foot model. Available with or without seeding attachment. 20 inch disks on seven inch spacing.

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This was the big power from Case in 1969. The 1470 was the updated version of the 1200 4 wheel drive. With that much power and traction you would want more than one of those Case diskers hitched behind.

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Ads for IH machines and trucks from 1975.

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Ad for Perkins V8 diesel engine from 1975. This engine was used in many Massey Ferguson tractors and combines and other machines.

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Interesting to read about the Australian "smoke laws" in that ad for the Perkins 540 engine. It seems to me those old Massey combines used to put out a smoke trail most of the time. Good engines, just smokey.

Here is another famous name in diesel engines. GM, Detroit diesels as seen in the wartime ad from the 1940s.

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Interesting to read about the Australian "smoke laws" in that ad for the Perkins 540 engine. It seems to me those old Massey combines used to put out a smoke trail most of the time. Good engines, just smokey.

Here is another famous name in diesel engines. GM, Detroit diesels as seen in the wartime ad from the 1940s.

Loadstar, your comment about Perkins engines being Smokey is so TRUE.For a time I worked for a dairy company which used IH trucks similar to the tanker in the truck ad I just posted. The trucks had 6.354 engines and were regularly being stopped because they were smokey.

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Well now lets not paint them all with the same brush . As smokey as some of the Perkins diesels were in (some) Massey combines, there were exceptions. I had a 550 with the 354 diesel and I don't ever recall seeing any more than a wisp of smoke when starting up . Otherwise it was one of the cleanest burning diesel engines I have ever known. The little four cylinder in my Massey Super 90 will smoke a little under load but not excessive. But the 750s and up seemed to put out a steady column of smoke when combining.

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Well now lets not paint them all with the same brush . As smokey as some of the Perkins diesels were in (some) Massey combines, there were exceptions. I had a 550 with the 354 diesel and I don't ever recall seeing any more than a wisp of smoke when starting up . Otherwise it was one of the cleanest burning diesel engines I have ever known. The little four cylinder in my Massey Super 90 will smoke a little under load but not excessive. But the 750s and up seemed to put out a steady column of smoke when combining.

My comments about Smokey engines refer mostly to the milk tankers as they were Smokey. The trucks were probably under-powered for the load they were pulling. I have spent many hours on MF 3 cylinder tractors and they were very clean burning.

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I don't have any experience with the Perkins diesel in trucks but would guess that a naturally aspirated 354 might be working a little hard at times in a milk truck.

Here is another wartime Detroit diesel ad from the 1940s.

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Ad for Ford 9600 and 8600 tractors from 1975