 Gentlemen (and ladies - wish there were more that shared our intrest in old tractors [Grin]) I had a chance to try out my new (to me) digital camera this week end. The picture is of an 8N that I found with a serial number between the two numbers of intrest - 343,592 and 363,592. As you can see the serial number is 351,309 and the date code cast into the block is A291. The code translates into January (A) 29 (middle digits), 1951 (last digit is for last digit of the year the casting mold was made). As further evidence that the correct last serial number for 1950 is probably 343,592, was the reply by John Smith to the post linked below. His 8N S# 370,905 has a April 9, 1951 casting date code, which would be D91. I also got a responce from Al Erringtron giving the date code on his 8N S# 350,857 as M220, or December 22, 1950. Do not think the Ford made 12,736 8N's in nine days. And nine days would mean working on a sunday and Christmas Day. To make that many would mean making over 1415 tractors per day, that is over four times the rate over the whole year. Lars, I hope you read this and are satisified - at least that 363,592 is not the "right" ending serial number for 1950. Regards,
Larry
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