When the M was 36 HP and the 41 A was 29 HP that made the M a 3 plow tractor and the A only a 2 plow tractor. That same engine in the 41 A was kept thru 1952 with the 29 HP power, now the gas engine and the M had a gas engine also was brought out in 47 with 38 HP so that put it into the 3 plow size So if you needed a 3 plow tractor would you buy that 29 HP A or the 36 HP M or go with the G that was not styled and may not have had a starter or 6 speed untill the GM in 44 and at a thousand ? pounds heavier. Most were running gas at that time in all the all fuel tractors so price was not a consideration, only pulling power and if the A could not pull that 3 bottom plow then what did you do, went to the M. Now if you would put the gas pistons, manifold and head on that 41 A it would have been a 38 HP tractor as well so then it would have been the factor in deciding the make on what you liked, not on what it would do. The early B 39 to 46 was equal in work it would do to a Farmal B and the A was sold against the Farmall H for mid size power and the G against the M for larger power and the G was priced a lot higher than the M. Also Deere did not sell a tractor of the capabilities of the Farmal A untill several years later the Deere M was brought out so not having a tractor in that style-size also hurt Deere sales. Me I would rather drive a Deere but no problems with a Farmall either. The only thing Deere had in early 40's in size Farmall did not have was the H, L & LA. Then McCormick had bigger standard tractors than Deere did with the D. If it would have been made as gas also then it could have competed against the larger McCormicks as well pulling the 4 bottom plow instead of 3 bottom.
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