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"but many people, including me, consider nearly all of them to be 9N's up until mid '47. " Leffingwell, Ford Farm Tractors, p 141:(quote) "This is to advise you,"John Chambers wrote from Dearborn on April 7, 1942, to Roger Kyes, Ferguson-Shrman's executive vice-president and sales manager, "that owing to the numerous changes which have been made to the tractor since it was designed in 1939, and because of the fact that steel wheels are now being fitted, The Ford Motor Company is now changing the model number from 9N to 2N." Laurence Sheldrick defined nomenclature further as of Spetember 22, in a memo to Kyes, identifying all farm tractors as 2N and all industrial tractors as 2NBN. Motor numbers would continue in the 9N series, however. The OPA froze all retail prices during the war. The only way a manufacturer could increase these was to introduce a new model incorporating changes. Ford's 2N was such an example, and Ford raised the price $60 to Ferguson-Sherman, who passed on $30 to the farmer. (unquote) So it seems the official Ford position was that it was the 2N from that point forward, regardless of what anybody else thought or what changes were actually made. Martin Guitar made a model D-28 before the war. It's commonly referred to as a "herringbone" owing to the style of wood marquetry around the top. The post-war D-28 lacked the wood marquetry, until 1976, when a model HD-28(Herringbone D-28) was introduced, incorporating many of the features of the pre-war "herringbone." If nothing else, new nomenclature helps the buying public discern a time-frame in which their product was made.
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