Re: Matching my serial # to engine

Posted by Jim Becker on November 24, 2005 at 17:28:04 from (71.96.33.51):

In Reply to: Re: Matching my serial # to engine posted by Hugh MacKay on November 24, 2005 at 14:52:28:

IH seemed to be a little hit-or-miss on matching numbers, doing less as time went on. The Chicago built A/B (up to serial 200,000) were done with matching serial and engine numbers. When production was moved to Louisville, the practice continued for the first 1,000 (up to serial 201,000). Evidently, these tractors were the first thousand of any model built at that plant, all during the month of April, 1947. It looks to me like at that point somebody at that plant decided they were wasting effort trying to match them and quit the practice. I haven't seen evidence that number matching was done on any Louisville tractor model from then on. Cub production began in May, 1947 and they never tried to make them match.

I will continue on another post.

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