1940s Colour Photographs

Photographs of IHC equipment in Southern Australia in the early 1940s…
SadFarmall
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It is a treat to see those. Especially since it shows how agriculture varies around the world. Looks like stripper heads have been around for quite a while.
 
The first Kodachrome was a blue/green, red/orange film dating to 1915. the full spectrum (real) Kodachrome was marketed in 1935.
I think some of these images are from both types. We can't be sure from here!! I have more than 1000 Kodachrome and Ektachrome
Slides. Jim
 
On that riding sulky hay rake, the farmer is looking over at the windrow, foot on the trip pedal, waiting to get it lined up exactly so he can kick the pedal and complete the windrow. I used to be pretty good at that. One time we raked up a nest of bumble bees, pulling the rake with a Ford tractor. I was riding the rake, my cousin driving the Ford. They flew right past me, right around me, and nailed my cousin on the neck. POW-POW-POW!!!! Happened so fast it was like slow motion, I couldn't yell in time.
 
The photograph with the man on the Farmall was taken in 1940. It is a Mr J. Holmes at his vineyard in Nyah West, in Northern Victoria. Some of the others were taken at Werribee in Southern Victoria, at a large State-owned farm, where IHC and Sunshine Harvester tested machinery and where many of their machines worked for decades.
SadFarmall
 
Takes me back to my boyhood days when my father worked on a farm in NZ during the 1940's. Never drove horses but earned a bit of pocket money on the baler tying the wires as the hay came through the chamber. That type of fertilizer spreader was a common sight also. Great photos. Sid.
 
The Farmall M was pulling a GL-200 Header. The photograph was taken in 1941. You can see the Australian rear wheels on the tractor, with 13.5-32 tyres. Some more pictures here of the GL-200.
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SadFarmall
 
Beautiful pics. Machinery looks sharp in
original state. Wonderful terrain as well.

Karl f
 

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