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Richard: I expect the hitch got changed within two years of tractor purchase. There were periods in the past 50 years, by times new tractors were scarce, and to get one equiped exactly as you wanted it was close to impossible. Today these dealers know exactly what all neighboring dealers have in stock, and they have access to that inventory. In the days of IH, even the parrent company wouldn't have had access to a particular dealers inventory. Some dealers did have arangement with other dealers they had made friends with over the years, but it was rather loose arangement and had more to do with unloading inventory than the other guys needs. I suspect the customer in the case of your tractor either took tractor as was and found a hitch from another dealer, or he may have decided he needed the hitch couple years after buying tractor. Remember fast hitch was always an option, and some percentage of fast hitches were installed after the fact. I can remember complete fast hitches on display at my local dealer. Wide fronts were the same for C, H and M size tractors, in those days they were all shipped with narrow front, as more would fit on truck or rail car. I've seen flat bed rail car loads of tractors with various components like wide fronts, loaders, hitches straped to deck, under the tractors.
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