[AJD] Quiz

[Duane Larson]

Nice job, J.R. - now I can stop looking and get back to work!  I wonder if 
Dean was thinking of the 62 - I forgot all about it.
Duane

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From: "J.R. Hobbs" <jrhobbs2004 at yahoo.com>
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> Dean VP <deanvp at att.net> wrote:     1.) What were the last models of JD 
> Row Crop Tractors that had a single
> barrel carburetor?
>
>  Model "60" and "70" LP-Gas tractors---as orginally delivered, they were 
> equipped with single-barrel carburetors until 6040401, when the change was 
> was made to duplex carburetion---previous LP-Gas tractors were changed to 
> duplex in a mandatory changeover program.
>
> 2.) What was the first numbered series JD tractor produced and what model
> year?
>
>  The Model "62", in 1937.
>
> 3. What was the first JD tractor that had a conventional three point 
> hitch,
> factory installed and what model year?
>
>  Model "40" T and "40" S, 1952
>
> 4.) Which model tractors had a "Live" hydraulic Power option?
>
>  The first JD tractors with "live " hydraulics were the "H" and the "LI" 
> Tractors, followed by the "M" Series Tractors, the Model "R", and the 
> styled "AR" and "AO" Tractors. All numbered series tractors were equipped 
> with live hydraulics
>
> 5.) Which models of JD tractors had letter series and successor numbered
> series produced in the same model year?
>
>  Depending on how you determine model years, in 1952,  the "A" and the 
> "60", and the "B" and the "50"( kind of "iffy" in this case, since there 
> were a handful of Model "50" Tractors built before the 1953 model year 
> actually began), and  in 1953, the "G" and the "70" .
>
> 6.) Which models of tractors had only one manufactured?
>
>  We're not counting expermentals here, are we?  There was only one of the 
> "420" Special (V) tractor built in the 1958 model year. There are a couple 
> of New Generation Hi-Crops of which only one example was built, but I'm 
> too lazy at this hour to go look them up. There may be others, but my 
> brain cells can't think of them off the top of my head.
>
> 7.) Which model tractor was announced for one model year but didn't come 
> out
> until the next model year due to a steel strike?
>
>  Generally regarded as the Model "50", though a few were built before the 
> strike.
>
> 8.) What tractor models had the first convertible front pedestals? And 
> what
> model year?
>
>  "AN", "AW", "BN", "BW" and "GN, "GW" all in the latter half of the 1947 
> model year.
>
> 9.) Were JD tractors ever produced that that were know as "W" versions but
> were not designated as such?
>
>  1952-1953 Model "50" and "60" Tractors.
>
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
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