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connor9988

connor9988

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I think I have posted about my great great grandfathers dealership on here before but I do not think I have posted these bulletins that he received. I want to say that these images are just a few of a small stack of documents that he received from Case. When scanning in the majority of these they came as PDF files which I cannot upload. I could make individual pictures of them but that will be very time consuming. I have an idea of how to get it set up so you folks can see them all but that will come at a later time (and if you all say you would like to see them). For now I will post the following images for your viewing pleasure.
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On the bulletin dated, November 8th 1940. It tells of a Fred Timbers of Stouffille Ontario, wining at the International Ploughing Match using a Case Centennial Plough. I believe that his son Barry Timbers, who is also a champion ploughman, lives just about 5 miles south of me. I was surprised to read this name and town , which are near by me in this bulletin. Small world.
 
Thanks for sharing. I always like reading what companies had to say about the competition especially knowing how history turned out.
 
I for one would like to say Thanks for posting these. Keep them coming when you have time. Gerald
 
WOW, you have a neat piece of plowing history there. I was very impressed with the details of the letter.
I am old enuff to rember several ' big time ' plowing contests in the upper Midwest. They were very interesting to go to and watch.Usuallycould learn something too. clint
 
Ben,

It appears Case management was not as concerned about the competition as they should have been, in retrospect. The H's and M's outsold Case machines many times over AND their small tractors along with Ford and AC were extremely popular. Case management just wasn't up to speed on how far the competitors were going to go after sales. Don
 
In fairness to Case, the H and M kicked everybody's butt. I don?t know why Case upper management had such a hard time comprehending that some farmers needed a tractor that could pull less the 3 bottoms. One of my books makes a point some Case dealers were only able to sell the CC because the IH dealers were sold out of F-12s. They catered to us wheat farmers just fine however.
 
Connor, thought you'd like to know, those 2 .pdf files are excellent, whether you view them in a browser or download and use a pdf utility. The third one is useable, if not quite as sharp as the other two. Much better than the .jpgs you originally posted. I didn't test the accuracy of the OCR although it looks like you ran it. What program are you using?
 
Good to hear Kevin. I actually didnt know it did the OCR until you pointed it out. for the first 2 PDFs the printer program (a cannon printer) that scanned it evidently gives it an OCR treatment. The 3rd PDF
probably doesnt have OCR as I imported the images to a Word document and then exported them to PDF and I dont think Word will do OCR.
 
Easy enough to check out...no, 3rd one doesn't appear to have text content. FWIW I've had good luck with Master PDF Editor. I'm a Linux nut and there's a free version for Linux, complete enough to be quite useful. Don't think there's a free Windows version, sorry.
 
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