Quoting Removed, click Modern View to seeNot very likely. This code is CAST into the part. At the time that code was determined, the part was at most a bucket full of molten iron. Occasionally, parts were cast differently to test a modification of some sort. Those usually had some more obvious indicator cast into them (like the word "SAMPLE").
This could indicate, source, date, time, shift, which master pattern was used etc. etc.
IH bought rough castings from as variety of outside sources as well as having multiple foundries of their own. Every foundry added symbols and codes that had some meaning either to them or to IH. There were too many for me to try to guess what they all mean.
As mkirsh said, date codes were sparse on the early letter series tractors. They were included on many more parts later on.
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