[AT] Thoughts on small combines, other harvest machinery and where it takes us (continued)

[Gene Dotson]

    Charlie
   Yeah, I knew what you meant. Allis still used their name up past the 
model 90 and 100 combines and were all painted AC orange. I believe they 
were all galvanized after the Gleaner Brothers purchase. Right?

    Wasn't the All Crop title first used with the 60 series?

                Gene



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> correction.  I meant to say the first of the All Crop combines not 
> Gleaner.
>
> Charlie
>
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>> Gene,  I've been looking at C.H. Wendell's Allis Chalmers Story and it
>> appears your dad's combine would have had to be a model 40.  That was
>> apparently the first of the Gleaner combines for AC and before that they
>> had the Advance Rumley Prairie models that were pretty large and clumsy
>> looking machines.