Posted by mkirsch on June 03, 2009 at 06:51:53 from (64.80.108.56):
In Reply to: Stage IV M, 400, 450 posted by IndianaRed on June 02, 2009 at 19:51:27:
Of course not Hugh. Who would advertise that their tractors are already obsolete? They may as well say, "Go buy a John Deere." Of course they did just that by bringing out the 460/560...
I recall from IH history books that back then "stage" was used by the engineers and marketers behind the scenes at IH. It's used by historians and collectors now to tell tractors of the same model apart.
Nobody uses Stage III or Stage IV, though. It's an SMTA or 400/450.
Frankly I'm not sure what Guy Fay meant there either. The 450 is not much different from a 400.
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