Posted by Scott PA on July 05, 2007 at 10:49:55 [URL] [DELETE] :
Our distributor was near Philadelphia and the docks in Delaware bay and in 1942 their salesman came around to dealers trying to sell new tractors that were on a ship that could not make it to England because of WWII, our dealership took one train car load of seven, when they arrived they were 1939's and the distributor had repainted them because the sun and salt water made the paint bad, they painted over the dirt and did not do a good job, we were charged the current 1942 price, tractors were in short supply so we were glad to have them and would have took more if we knew how long the shortages were really going to last. At least one 1939 made it to England for demo because in a Ferguson book printed in the 1980's a picture shows one with steel wheels plowing and gave a serial# in the 800 range, some did make it around 1943 and later according to pictures in later books from English writers.
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