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I still think I can get at least two of the Early SP's here in Wyoming,,,, one was a really nice shedded one until they pulled it out of the shed 10 years ago, these had a hyd pump driven off the pto of a reversed tractor trans
 
There are a few around here of but they are scrap iron at best. Oliver and Case must have gotten together since their combines were copies of each other with the exception of Oliver placing everything on the left side of the combine.
 
I know the first SP's CASE made were done on a shoe string budget,,, as the then Pres said No one would buy them as a pull-type was a better way to go,,,, he also help off letting them install a 3pt of their own for many years, as well as throwing Ferguson out of his office when he tried to get CASE to build a tractor like the (n Ford built when he went to them next,,, he was the same guy JD had as Pres, the "D" was his brain child there I was told,,
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Good old Leon! Considered dangerously progressive by 1910s Deere management, and considered by 1950s Case management to be an out-of-touch old fuddy-duddy.
 
Your history is right but Leon Clausen was director of manufacturing not the president. He pushed for the production of the D when others in JD were thinking about dropping out of the tractor market. Leon won the argument and as you know the rest is history. I don't know who the lead engineer was on the D project but it was chief engineer LW Witry that came up with the roller chain final drive idea. Wasn't it Leon that made Case ditch the crossmotors and focus on the development of the L and C. If that's true I would say you have to give him some credit since those tractors and there descendants were successful. On the combines its obvious the first Case self propelled combines were put together with no budget. They just threw stuff off their tractors onto a pull type combine. I didn't know Leon C was that backwards in his thinking because it was obvious self propelled combines were a thing of the future even in the 40s.
 
I might think about selling my 40 Oliver..Was always shedded and last used in 1980...Purchased out of SE
Kansas 7-8 years ago..Pictures of it were put on here..
 
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