[Farmall] insider info.

[Matthew Gray]

lol ya

old literature is awesome, I love reading it, and am always looking for it, 
it just shows how far we have evloved as a society

1/16 is quiet a bit of steel when considering the surface area of a circle 
(cross section of a axle) :o))

I have a salesman manual for the MF1100 series somewhere, they claim the 
farmers would be attracted to the new sleek lines from memory


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john hall" <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:36 AM
Subject: [Farmall] insider info.


>I imagine every major manufacturer is always spying to see what the 
>competition is up to. Last night I found out to what extreme IH went to 
>against John Deere. While sorting through a bunch of literature left over 
>from the IH dealer dad retired from, we found a "training" manual for 
>salesmen. I briefly looked at it and found some memos IH had sent to 
>dealers in the mid/late 70's. The first was about a price increase Deere 
>was having on combines and corn headers. Included in the memo was Deere's 
>dealer pricing. I found another for tractors that showed pricing, but with 
>it broken down into $ per hp. Also there was a note about Deere increasing 
>rear axle size. I couldn't help but laugh at this one. IH pointed out that 
>their axles were still bigger---a gigantic 1/16 of an inch.
>
> John Hall
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