Question

What is the correct colors on a model #9 mowing machine . and paint codes if knowen .

I did a search on facebook and found a pic but I have no idea how to post it to here. Blue wheels on the contact part with white spokes and a white seat with red frame sound right? I also found an Amish blog posted that describes the pic but no paint codes.

The blue is so close to Ford Blue, nobody will even notice !!

I really doubt the wheels (I think what you are describing would be wheels, hub, spokes and outside rim assembled prior to painting) would have originally been two different colors. Most things that were painted by IH in their product production plants where dipped in paint vats so the wheels would have most likely been a single color when originally made. I am making this assumption based on reading numerous Paint Committee Decision Memos on various products where paint changes were made to make use of the paint vats in use at the various plants and hand masking and painting like we do things in our restorations wasn't the norm during original production. There are others on this forum who have written numerous published articles in Red Power and other publications that would have most likely researched this deeply enough to provide a more documented response and I would be pleased to accept what they have found in their research, Hal.

Don't know when the #9 mowing machine was being produced but the colors used in 1957 for red, blue and white on the No. 11 Side Delivery Hay Rake were No. 901 Harvester White, No. 602 Harvester Blue, and No. 201 Harvester Red. This information is noted in Product Identification Committee Decision No. 125 dated March 13, 1957. If the No. 9 mower is of a different era the red, blue and white would most likely have been the color designation in effect by IH at that time, Hal.

Around 48 is what my one friend said . He is into draft horses and this mowing machine has been in the area since new . when i was a kid back in the fifty's there were a few farms around here that were still HORSE POWERED and not Amish . So i guess that 2150 red will be fine and Cub cadet cream will work and if there was Blue on it that will take some digging on the color code . Way back some 49 years ago i had a Qt of that blue . Wonder if i still have that qt. still layen around .

Thanks Kevin ' i'll look and see as i never thought about looking there.

I agree with Farmallhal about the two-colored wheels. When they went thru the paint dept, it had to be like an assembly line and I doubt they would ever take the time to tape or somehow protect the steel wheels for more than one color.

The folks at P&O making those plows I am sure were never going to put up with that if they painted them.

After searching for years I finally found an elderly guy working at a NAPA store who had some old books describing various IH colors. I had a nice #8 Little Genius plow and I wanted it painted correctly because I go to shows.

This elderly fellow blew the dust off his book and then told me the correct blue was "IH 1150B" and the modern code for him is "NAPA 53-3736A". I bought that from NAPA and it is as close to anything I have ever seen...I go back 80 years of being around old IH equipment. And that blue is NOT Ford blue.....no way, not at all.

the folks at the Wisconsin Historical Society told me that the records for IH "cream" or white are lost and no one really knows for sure what the code numbers might have been.

I finally settled on "IH 935 White" which can be bought at a Case-IH dealership. It is called "white" but is really a cream color. It is the same or very close to what is on the hoods of 460 and 560 tractors.

I posted pictures of my plow on this site someplace but I don't recall how to find them...maybe on Implement Photos. Just type "LA in WI" or "#8 Little Genius" and they might come up.

I realize that what I used for paint is not what I see on some other plows at shows but I am happy about my decisions and that keeps me content!

The best sound in my world is plowing with that plow and being pulled with my father's 1950 "H"...my gosh what music that is!!!

Hope this is of help.
LA in WI

PS A big hello to Hal!

Hopefully this pic works

(quoted from post at 02:39:38 02/22/17) Hopefully this pic works

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Kevin, I appreciate what you are showing, but that picture is not an old picture. And certainly not Amish. White seat from the factory? Never happened. Somebody had fun painting that mower the way he wanted it to be for his enjoyment. He has it so bright we need sunglasses just to look at it!
LA in WI