 I read with interest the story of the Case cab development in the recent issue of Old Abe News.
I recently saved a picture from the internet of a 930 cab being tested so I thought it would be
a good addition to this story, only it does not fit the time period since its labeled 1970.
I have to presume the date is wrong since the 70 series factory cabs were already introduced in '69. So I'm wondering if this was a cab tested in the mid-60s for the 30 series before it was decided the Allen cab would be the cab sold through Case dealers for it's 930s and 1030s? But did anyone care about roll over protection at that time since OSHA didn't require roll over
protection yet at that time? Or was this the after-market cab mentioned in the article being tested for the up and coming 70 series that failed so miserably that Case then decided to design their own cab? I think it's possible a cab would be tested on a 930. A 70 series tractor may not have been built yet in time for the testing and development of a 70 series cab.
I should think this would have been taking place in 1968 to allow time for design, testing and production of cabs for release in '69 but I'm just speculating. On another note, the pictures in Old Abe don't match with the story timeline either since the tractors on their backsides are both Power White tractors, the first being a 1370 and the second an 1175 which didn't come along until years later. But the film stripe pictures look like Desert Sunset paint and painted fuel tanks.
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