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Wards Twin Row Year

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Harve Waff

11-03-2005 00:38:36




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The Avery Yahoo discussion forum has some information about the mfg years of Avery, Cletrac and Wards tractors versus serial numbers. However, I have been unable to find out anything about my WTR, and hope soneone may have information on the Montgomery Wards tractors. It is model 04CT-155A with serial no. 9FA036. It has a Wards tag on the right side of the frame indicating that it was manufactured by the Cleveland Tractor Company for Wards. The engine is a Hercules IXA3.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Alberta Mike

11-07-2005 06:06:03




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 Re: Wards Twin Row Year in reply to Harve Waff, 11-03-2005 00:38:36  
I'm not sure what you mean by WTR but your serial number would indicate that it was built in 1940 by Cletrac. Actually, it would be a Cletrac GG, the rubber tired version of their HG crawler. The first year for Cletrac's rubber tired tractor was '39 starting with 1FA000 and then in 1940, 5FA338 was the starting point. In 1941, they started with 1FA0086 and up. Getting rid of the FA part, they really started with 1000 in 1939, then 5338 in 1940 and then 10086 in 1941. So yours was actually made in late 1940. Cletrac continued to make them until sometime in '42 I believe. I don't know if anyone has accurate records of how the Cletracs were painted or badged (eg. Wards, etc) or maybe they just picked them off the line and did them up differently as the orders came in. Eventually, BF Avery took over the Cletrac GG lineup in '42 I think. My article that Gene mentioned (below) is in the articles section so maybe go in there and do a search, it might clear up a few things for you.

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Gene Davis (Ga.)

11-04-2005 20:38:15




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 Re: Wards Twin Row Year in reply to Harve Waff, 11-03-2005 00:38:36  
Guy on this site posting under the name of Alberta Mike put together a history of these tractors sometime ago. You can do a search for it in the archives.



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