Posted by kopeck on June 03, 2009 at 08:11:44 from (169.244.143.125):
In Reply to: Stage IV M, 400, 450 posted by IndianaRed on June 02, 2009 at 19:51:27:
The stages are real, it's just IH never used them in public. The Stage I Super M had the belly pump, the Stage II had live hydraulics. After that thing get interesting, Stage III became the SMTA and stage IV they dropped the letters and called it a 400.
After that they may have just stopped using stages since the models had clearly different names (Stage I - III were all just variations of the Super M vs 400 - 450).
It's to bad IH made things so complicated back then. If they could have just got live hydraulics and a live PTO into their line right after the war they could have dominated the farm world even more then they did during that period. Instead they just crawled along and let others implement these features and gain some ground.
It's frustrating to think what that H/M line could have been.
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