Help in Identifying Combine

HowardMR

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Can anyone tell me the make and model of this combine? It's an old photo of my dad (on combine) and uncle (on the John Deere D, I believe?) taken in 1928 near Hugoton, Kansas.

Your help would be appreciated.
HMR
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As usual, google is my friend. I found a picture of this "Combined Reaper-Thresher" in C H Wendel's book, Encyclopedia of American Farm Machinery and Antiques. https://books.google.com/books?id=7ESL33IrEzAC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=COMBINES+OF+THE+1920S&source=bl&ots=FTVdC5ZkK9&sig=DmeLTC6EyA6_ezzZxd5gobScOC0

He writes that this Massey-Harris No. 9 was manufacured in their Batavia, NY, plant starting in 1927. It was available with either a 12' or 15' platform. A smaller model, the No. 6, came with a 10' platform. I've never seen an old combine with such a low-mounted grain tank and with what looks like a paddle-style or cup-style unloading elevator. Most of the old IH and JD combines of that era had tremendously high-mounted tanks for gravity unloading.
 
By George, Howard, looks like you've "nailed it"!

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