My dad worked there for about forty years, starting in 1938. He was sent to Dayton for awhile to work in a (presumably GM, because his seniority counted at retirement) factory to balance aircraft propellers. Guide also absorbed Brown, Lipe, Chapman from Ohio in the late thirties. Dad was a buffer, both hand and automatic, for the various chrome plated headlight shells made at Guide. (This was in addition to working an 80 acre farm in Alexandria) I remember taking at least two tours through the plant where I saw them stamping the tractor lamp shells out of brass, on a continuous feed Verson press. A couple of weeks ago, at the Flywheelers swap meet in South Haven, Mi, I bought two chromed Guide tractor light shells and rims, possibly worklamps, since they had holes punched in the rear for off/on switches. Quite possibly my Dad buffed them. Nice bit of memory, seeing that the plant has been torn down. I was back in town for an Aunt's funeral a couple of years ago. State Road 109 is just a ghost highway now, and Anderson just isn't the same anymore. It's hard to go back.
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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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