[AJD] late B

[Dean VP]

Louis:

One thing should be clear by now. There were 1953 model year ([production
year?) 50's and 60's made in 1952. If my memory serves me right there were
no 1953 70's made in 1952. As I recall the 70 didn't start shipping until
sometime in 1953. Need to look it up again. 

But the ad just verifies that the JD Sales, Marketing departments and
Dealers were very aware of Model years and advertised "new features for 1953
models that were shipped and built in 1952. The same way the auto industry
does it. A way to get farmers motivated to buy something with new features.
It also gave JD the opportunity to raise prices each year. New features
slightly higher prices. Older models got sold at the old prices or at a
discount. The way the sales game works in most industries except the
electronics industry. In that industry, new models with more features cost
less. Completely backwards of almost all other industries. 

I'm having real trouble understanding why the concept or business method of
model years is in dispute. 

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
storeroom door 


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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
Louis R Godena
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 1:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [AJD] late B

Well, the Nov 1952 issue of *Farm Journal* has an ad for the "new" 50, 60, 
and 70 JD models, so there must have been at least *one* made in '52.

Interesting thing about *Farm Journal*; my grandfather subscribed back in 
the forties, I guess and maintained his subscription until my father took it

over in the early sixties.  Around 1961, some genius in accounting decided 
to "purge" the subscription list of all "non-farmers".  My vegetable-farming

father, along with the biggest dairy farmer in Rhode Island, was purged and 
"unsubscribed".   Oh, yeah.   The editor of Farm Journal also was kicked off

the subscriber list.

Ah, the early days of automation:-)

Louis G

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald L. Cook" <rlcook at pionet.net>
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 4:34 PM
Subject: RE: [AJD] late B


> Dean,
> Seeing as how I started this mess, I will mess it up some more.<g>
>
> A friend of mine still has his dad's 70.  First one sold by Noonan 
> Implement or maybe right after Wes Christensen bought that dealership in 
> Sioux City as I take it.  His dad, now deceased always claimed it was a 
> 1952.  How about that?  I heard there were no l952 70's.  I do not know 
> the serial number, but someday I might be able to find it out but I have 
> no idea what its importance would be.  I think it is a 1953.  My dad has a

> 1955 60.  He insists it is a 1954.  Dunno.
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
>
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