[AT] Minneapolis Moline grill

[Richard Fink Sr]

Thant is what they call progress Ralph. I will never understand 
it.  We had an old garage about 20 miles from me that had about any 
small part you would ever need for older autos [70 and back]was there 
about as long as i can remember. He died and the kids scraped all 
that was in the building.
R Fink


At 01:07 AM 3/1/2008 -0600, you wrote:


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>From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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>Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 12:17 AM
>Subject: Re: [AT] Minneapolis Moline grill
>  Thinking back, in the 1950's we had in the county (that I
> > knew of):
> > 2 Ford dealers
> > 2 MM dealers
> > 1 John Deere dealer
> > 1 AC dealer
> > 2 IHC dealers
> > 2 Ferguson dealers
> > 1 Case dealer
> > 2 Oliver dealers
> > 1 Co-op/Cockshutt dealer
> > Today we have zero dealers in the county.  :-(
> > Not even an independent used implement dealer. A few years ago I was
> > selling a little used stuff off of a lot out on Indiana SR 44 beside our
> > store. I used to like to joke about being Shelby County's largest farm
> > implement dealer.
>
>Just in our little villlage of around 500 almost every major farm equipment
>line had a dealer. The ones I can think of are
>J.I. Case
>Massey Harris/Ferguson
>IHC
>Cockshutt
>John Deere
>Allis Chalmers (Ford autos and farm equipment sold by the same dealership)
>This was during the 1950s and 60s. There may have been others that I have
>forgotten.
>Fast forward to modern times, there are no implement or auto dealers left.
>Closest JD dealers are 30 miles away. Case/IH is either 50 or 60 miles.
>No grain elevators left and the rail tracks are scheduled to be removed this
>coming summer.
>
>Ralph in Sask.
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