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If those engineers did not like the way things were going with the A & B in 1951 or so, it is because the A & B were in their last production years at that point. I'm sure the 50 and 60 were just about ready to come out and the A & B were not having any design work done at all other than replacing the radiator core with steel because of copper shortages during the Korean war. Also, a water pump was added at that time to compensate for the poorer heat transfer capabilities of steel. You mention a "little known outfit that later became IHC" - IHC was around a long time before that, and their Farmall Regular, introduced in 1926, had almost buried Deere, since it could cultivate two rows of corn or cotton, while Deere did not have a row-crop tractor until the short-lived "C" and then the "GP", both after the Farmall Regular. If those engineers had only known - Deere started the development of the "New Generation" 3010, 4010, etc. tractors in 1953, and they could have been a part of that action! Stan
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