Bryce, on the ( & 2 N tractors an easy way to tell if the hood is there is that the ( had a hidden set of wasteners inside the doglegs under the radiator thus a smooth dog leg, the 2 did not have the hidden fasteners and the hood had one bolt through the dogleg on each side to hold the hood on. In the picture you had on of the tractor that bolt was clearly visable in the pictures. Also the ( had a I beam type of wishbone to the axle, first 2 N also had that till supply dried up and that is when they went to the tubular style as it took less steel to make and still gave the strength needed. That was when the goverment dictated if and when you could get material to make an Item as things were in very short suply during WW2. That is why there are no war years of some of the tractors and the companys used their allotment to make the models that were needed the most. I have a 1944 2N that my Dad bought new in May of 44 and he had to get papers from the goverment saying it was needed for food production to be able to buy it and then you were placed on a list with the dealers and when your name came up if you wanted a Ford and an Allis Chalmers or a JD became avaible you had to take the AC or JD if you got a tractor or go back to the bottom of the wating list to start again. I have that 2N and also a 41 9N that I bought a few years ago and the engine is tor down and a rebuild started on back in 2004 but never gotten finnished. That was the time that if you were farming you could get all the gas you needed but if you lived in town you were rathioned. Also at that time you were only allowed to buy a certain amount of meat or sugar. Being on the farm ment we never had to worry about the meat situation as we raised all of our own. My Wife's grandfather lived in and worked in town and had a farmer friend that he could get meat from without the goverment ever knowing it existed. If you did not have that then you were very limited in what you could get. And with all what I have been saying that will go back to this fact that the goverment would not allow anybody to raise prices on anything. An example is the John Deere G tractor. When it was just ready to be brought on the market it was just styled and with a starter from the old unstyledmodel and therefore they needed more money for that tractor and that is why the Unstyled was a G and the first styled was a GM as for G modernized, later after the war controls they could go back to the G only. A lot of information here and hope that it is not too much for you but it helps explain the changes in the models like those hood fasteners on the 9N cost more to make and took more steel to make as well as time to make as just the bolt through the hood so simple things like that is what made the changes to design of things.
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