we had a bunch of them , not only in trucks but also in equipment The Cummins engine in the big A car had the biggest cummins at the time in it and it had the blower and a turbo and it was rated at 380 Hp.A couple Rubber tired dozers had the C 190 in them . Back in the late fiftys and early sixtys the big road power was 318 Detroits and 335 Cummins . For the most part it was 238 Detroits and 250 Cummins . Back then i lived in a two horse town that U S 224 and Oh . 46 224 runs from New Castle Pa to IN and ties into US 24 It was a major east west truck route . Copper Jarrett , Road way and Mid West Emery used it along with others Copper ran 238 Detroits in GMC Cracker Boxes Mid west Emery ran the 250 Cummins and Road way ran Macks The big gas burners were still running back then and you could tell each and every truck by the sound You could tell the I H 549 verses the 534 Ford or the GMC gasser same went with the diesels you could about bet on what carrier by the sound .
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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