As commented in an earlier discussion, the galvanizing did not come in till about 1943, before that the rims were painted red like the rest of the tractor. Look at any very early Farmall M and Farmall H literature and they show only red rims. Even some of the later advertising showed both painted and galvanized rims. My 1941 W-4 was paint to metal but the 1948 Super-A had originally galvanized rims. After sand-blasting I had them zinc coated by the sand-blasters straight away. The W-4 rims were primed by the galvanizers and I took them home and started getting red on them as soon as possible. I had enquired about hot dipping the Super-A rims but was warned that it would be difficult to get uniform colour and they were scared of the rims deforming in the hot zinc tank
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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