Posted by Jimmie D. Phelps on March 22, 2014 at 20:47:17 from (199.91.129.70):
For Case-Nutty and all other Case diehard fans. As you know most bigger Case IH tractors are fwa. And a times some show pictures of a 930 and 1030 with fwa. Well did you ever wonder how fwa came about.? It was not with Case. In a issue of Ageless Iron it told about it in its review of MM. It said MM introduced the fwa units in 704’s in 1962. That was not true MM had them on their GVI’s and maybe on there GB's with the six,before the 704 and that was not the beginning of fwa on MM. To my relocation this is what happened. In my town of Sidney Nebraska we had some very good tractor dealers,(Case, John Deere, MM, Oliver, Massey Harris, and maybe some others that I can’t recall) The ones with the most sales were Case, John Deere and MM. The MM and Case dealerships were on the same block. The MM dealership was Foland Farm Machinery run by Doyle Foland. His sons Kenneth and Dale still have it. I would say in the late 40's or early 50's a farmer from Kimball County (Wayne Kennedy) wanted more traction on his MM-G. So he went to Doyle and they took a front end from a Army six X six and put it on the MM-G. it worked so well Foland put it on for other farmers in our area. Foland than took the concept to MM and they than put it on production tractors. Also the first six cylinder Engines in MM was put in the same tractor for the same guy in the G that they put the fwa. It was a LP unit from their stationary engines . MM took that from Foland and put in their first ones with a six. . All this, I believe, took place before the fwa and Six cylinder engines were introduced in the big two (Case, JD, ) I think Oliver had a six in some of their tractors.
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