[Farmall] Cultivator Colors

[Kevin Weinstock]

Well I believe that you guys know of what you speak, so I'll just leave it 
at that was just what my Father-in-law chose to do and that's the way it 
will stay until the next generation decides to change it.
thanks to all for the collective info !

Kevin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Becker" <jim.becker at verizon.net>
To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Farmall] Cultivator Colors


> Except that is white and the question was about cream.  Product
> Identification Committee Decision 37 (9/7/56) is the one that said to 
> start
> using a trim color on tractors.  It is the same one that eliminated the
> color cream.
> http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/ihc/paint/display.asp?pageurl=I037_01.gif
>
> IH generally stayed with silver rims although they might have been bolted 
> to
> a red, white or yellow disk.  When the wheel (rim and center) were a 
> single
> piece, the whole thing would have been a single color.  They were often
> white, for example your 184 and the Cub Cadets.  I think there may have 
> been
> a few bolt-on white rims, but if so they were probably on captive imports.
> I think some of the captive imports had silver disks even with a bolt-on
> rim.
> Jim Becker
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Mike Sloane
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 2:48 PM
> To: Farmall/IHC mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Farmall] Cultivator Colors
>
> I am reluctant to correct Jim Becker, who know just about everything
> there is to know about IH tractors, but I know that my 184 came with "IH
> White" rims front and back. But, of course, the 184 isn't a real "farm"
> tractor, even though most of the running gear comes from the Farmall Cub.
>
> <http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/international_184/184_painted1.html>
>
> Mike
>
> On 1/6/2012 12:55 PM, Jim Becker wrote:
>> Cream was used on a variety of implement rims along with other implement
>> parts.  That color was never used on tractor rims.  The original
>> application
>> of the cream color is called out in earlier decisions.
>> Jim Becker
>>
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