Rick: If the Hiniker cab is a ROPS cab it will be tagged as such and will have approval of the American Standards Assoc as well as any other country they may have sold them. Secondly I'd have to see that cab in person to believe it is ROPS. No aftermarket company could afford the liability associated with building a cab and not the tractor. Hiniker built the same cab for all those makes you list, same with Year A Round. The liability of assuring ROPS protection would have made each cab cost $3,000. in 1970. As I recall those cabs were $1,500. to $2,000. for most tractors mentioned.
On the issue of same cab, Corporate America's patents would never permit another company to build a cab that looks as closely to their own as Hiniker does to Year A Round or vice versa. Someone paid fees to someone else, and it was spelled out in the contract the changes they must use. I was actively farming when these cabs hit the market in late 60s early 70s. There was never a rumble of any patent violations. In that respect they are the same cab.
This same discussion is in the archives from 6-8 years ago. At that time I read but typed nothing. The folks involved were quite adamit that Hiniker and Year A Round are same cab. Believe me the depth of knowledge here at YT was much greater back then than it is today. I never had either of these cabs, my tractors were primarily operated by employees, and the jurisdiction I lived in required by law ROPS protection for all non family operators. In 1975 when I bought my 1066, the only cab with ROPS protection was the IH factory cab. Everything else out there was less money, but no ROPS. My guess is both Hiniker and Year A Round were both out of the cab business by 1980, as jurisdictions across America demanded ROPS.
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