Back in the '40s and '50s, there wasn't a "standard" yellow for industrial equipment. In fact, orange was probably more common. A lot of the IH tractors sold for non-farm use were painted the standard harvester red. Many that were still in use by local highway departments got repainted yellow in the 1960s. So original color of these tractors really doesn't mean much.
There was a service bulletin from when the M was current that adderssed sales of the Farmall M for non-farm use. (I don't remember if they used the word industrial or the word commercial, probably commercial.) That bulletin instructed dealers to convert the tractors to the commercial version. The conversion consisted of:
1) Remove the "FARMALL" name plate from the front and replace with an "INTERNATIONAL" name plate.
2) Replace both hood side sheet decals with ones that said "INTERNATIONAL".
I don't know if they were available that way from the factory, but I presume so. I also don't know if the same applied to the Super M. Again, I presume so. Item 1 from above wouldn't have applied to a Super M.
As far as optional equipment goes, it would depend on the commercial use intended for the tractor. A belt pulley attachment would be unlikely, a wide front axle would have probably been common. Front wheels with attached lugs seems improbable.
Based on all of this, I don't think the 2 tractors pictured in this thread look like commercial/industrial tractors. They are just Farmalls that somebody shot with yellow paint.
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