1950 Allis Chalmers

• Hervey Bay Historical Village & Museum

All AC tractors that I am aware of prior to about 1960 were persian orange - the early version. There are actually two different variations on the shade of persian orange. The early version was used prior to about 1960 and the later, more reddish version was used after that time. The early version is a duller, brownish/yellowish orange - looking a lot like the orange shade of pumpkins. The closest color that I have seen to match that is code #60080 from PPG and YS074 from DuPont. You can see a visual comparison of the two different persian oranges from PPG here. I don't know what's available to you down under. Most parts were painted orange but I cannot advise other particular details as I am not into true "historical" reproductions. You can try to get better info in the AC forum on this site. You will need to identify exactly which AC model as I am sure there are differences. One of the areas where there is considerable disagreement is in the color of the rear rims - orange vs silver or galvanized. It is my understanding that the earlier years favored orange and the later years favored silver/galvanized. You can also get some better informed opinion here for the B, C and CA if one of them that happens to be your model.

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The links in the Table of Contents do not work. However, if you manually change the page numbers in the address bar of your browser, you can navigate to each chapter. For instance, first find the chapter you are interested in from the Table of Contents page. Then go back to the chapter page you were viewing (if you left it to view the TOC) and change just the page number in the address. For example, if you were viewing chapter 8 (which is page 10 in the address) and you wanted to go to chapter 6, you would manually change the 10 to an 8. You then are directed to chapter 6. You can navigate to other chapters in a similar fashion. It's a nice little book and is also available for sale in hard copy from this site - see here.