The Super MTA's differential housing is the only larger Super series tractor to have the mounting bosses for the Fast Hitch. It is actually the same casting used on the 400.
To mount a Fast Hitch on a Super H or a Super M (pre-MTA), would have required redesigning the differential housing for the mounting points. Since IH already had the 300/400 series tractors lined up "in the chute," redesigning the outgoing models for 1-2 years of production was not worth the cost or effort.
It seems to me that IH was taking "baby steps" with new technology through the 1950's, releasing a new model every couple of years with slightly more advanced features. IMHO that was intended to get farmers accustomed to the new features slowly, rather than slamming them all on the market at once.
I mean, look at today. Any time some new piece of technology comes along, the "old grumps" complain that it can't be any good, and what was wrong with the old technology, blah blah blah... Case in point, the pushbutton 4x4 vs. the old fashioned transfer case shifter on the floor, discussed on this site recently.
Who was in charge of the farms in the 1950's? The "old grumps" of the time, who started out farming with horses, and were dragged kicking and screaming into the tractor age.
"More to go wrong" they said about tractors like the Regular, F-20, H, and M. Compared to a horse, a tractor like a 450 would look like a spaceship. "Jeez, look at all those newfangled gadgets and hydro-lallic thingys. That thing's never gonna hold up!"
Sound familiar? It does to me. I heard it a lot when CaseIH came out with the Magnums. 27 years later there are still a lot of 71XX series out in the fields.
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