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LenRahilly
02-03-2007 15:51:19
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Re: 1924 NORMAL ?? in reply to Inquiring Mind, 01-31-2007 07:58:24
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None of the old IHC literature I have ever refers to the original Farmall as "Regular." Whenever this tractor is mentioned in official IHC sales literature, it is to point out that it is the first successful row-crop tractor, that other mfrs. essentially copied the concept, and that it served as the model for later IHC row-crop tractors (F-20, F-30, F-12, even H and M). Since the F-20 was only slightly-changed from the original Farmall, the two looked a lot alike from a distance, or to people who didn't know the details. I have actually heard people ask, "Is that an F-20?" The answer was always, "No, she's just a regular Farmall." I know that most books nowadays consider "Regular" to be the official name of the original tractor, but I don't believe this is true. Can't prove a negative, they say, so I am going on only the terms I have seen in IHC sales brochures from the early thirties right on through the A, B, H and M series. Incidentally, I grew up with a Farmall, an F-20, several F-12s, and a couple of H's, and I was a fanatical reader of the sales brochures, instruction manuals, repair manuals, etc., that I could lay my hands on. Guess that makes me somewhat familiar with the old boys (or are they old gals?).
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