Friday, August 22, 2008

More on the Color and Birthdate of Tractor


Found this while researching on the internet. Its always fun to see actual documents that were produced in the era of the F-20... It calls out the date of change of paint color. This means Grandpa's F-20 was produced in either November or December of 1936.
IH built 36,033 F-20's in 1936. That averages to 144 tractors per day! Since this F-20 is 68,060, it means only 688 more were built in 1936. That's 4.7 days of assembly.
In the 1930's, workers would have built machines on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve Day. If you look at a 1936 calendar, and back up 5 days, it means this F-20 was assembled on Christmas Eve!
At this point, I'm officially declaring the roll-off date of my Grandpa's F-20 as December 24th, 1936. It will be 72 years old this winter. Time to start planning its 75th birthday party!
(Granted I'm taking a few liberties in calculations, but I'm very confident I'm not off more than a few days). A Christmas time tractor for sure!


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