[AT] Grain Augers - now Long equipment

[Bruce Moden]

How old are those Long's?  I own a Long 36 which I bought new in 1986.  The story the elderly salesman told me was that Long was a sub-contractor of the Ford tractor company in the 30's & 40's & that they made combines for Ford under the Ford name this was under a contract with a Romanian company through a deal made by the FDR administration.  After the 2nd WW Ford decided to manf. their own combines & allowed Long to produce a tractor similar to the Ford tractors.  I don't know if Long was making a tractor in eastern Europe prior to that time.

--- On Sat, 12/31/11, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:


From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers - now Long equipment
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Date: Saturday, December 31, 2011, 9:26 AM


John,  I may be wrong but I don't think those old American built Long 
tractors were built by the Long Manufacturing company we know.   I think 
maybe the guys that owned Long Manufacturing in Tarboro might have bought 
out the company that built the old Long tractors or possibly just bought the 
name.

-----Original Message----- 
From: john hall
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 8:19 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers - now Long equipment

Grant, I don't think Long built too many of those early tractors. I've been
about 100 miles form their plant all my life and have never seen one of
those tractors. I did see one up for auction a few years back in the eastern
part of the state. I would love to have one. Wouldn't mind having a Corbitt
as well, they were built about 30 miles from me. I've only seen one of
those, it may well be the only one that exists, I think less than 40 were
built.

John Hall

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