Case VO orchard?????

• Case V series

its a VI

case made 734 of these little beauties. they didnt have a hole in the hood for the breather either. the shorter steering shaft may be the 1942 model. as far as i know the orchard models were tall like the V.

mike

I know that we are talking about the V series but the following VAO info may be helpful: The Case manual for VAO tractors has 2 pages of pictures for identification purposes and the left side of the VAO is shown; exhaust swept back and down ala Ford N series, air cleaner stack is short with the top of the cap just under the bottom edge of the hood, steering wheel is mounted low on a short column and the fenders are the butterfly type. I've seen 5 or 6 VAO orchards in this area and only one was equipped with full rear fenders, none had the full tin which makes me think that this was a dealer installed option. I also know of 2 VAOs one of which has a vertical-up exhaust and the other has short no-muffler cast elbow with a flattened opening that comes straight out and down at about a 30 deg. angle. I've heard that Case was pretty much assembling anything that would work right after the war due to the high demand for tractors. That would help explain the variety of configurations within the various models of that period. The link will take you to my webpage where some of these are pictured. NOTE: By the time I took the pictures some modifications by past owners had been made. However, I saw these tractors years ago and can verify that the exhaust, steering, etc. are original. :-)

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