kcm.MN
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Bob Bancroft
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- Aurora NY
Is that as in "Montgomery Ward"? If my memory isn't fooling me, there was a M-W store in town. Definitely not a farm store. Seems like there were also M-W mail order catalogs at home?
gtractorfan
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Is there a date for what year this ad was from? I never saw a Plow Trac like that before.
Majorman
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- Scarning, Norfolk, England
I have a BMB Plowmate which was built just after WW2 to an American Design by British Motor Boats Ltd. They also did a smaller version called the Hoemate. From the look of those two, they must be the original design as my tractor is very similar.
Steve@Advance
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Bob, I too am calling up some childhood memories, but as I recall there was a Wards Farm Store.
It was similar to a Tractor Supply, catered to the farm/ranch customer. It was a division of Montgomery Ward but in a separate location.
Montgomery Ward did have an extensive catalog sales department. It was "almost" as big as Sears. MW had about everything that Sears did, except for the big ticket items, like house kits. They may have even had those, that was many years ago.
We rarely used the mail order though, that cost extra for shipping. We would just go pick up what we needed, the warehouse was right there at the store, took about 30 minutes for them to pull the order.
That was why we used MW instead of Sears, MW was close by, Sears was on the opposite side of town. Sears didn't have a local warehouse, so anything from the catalog had to be shipped.
It was similar to a Tractor Supply, catered to the farm/ranch customer. It was a division of Montgomery Ward but in a separate location.
Montgomery Ward did have an extensive catalog sales department. It was "almost" as big as Sears. MW had about everything that Sears did, except for the big ticket items, like house kits. They may have even had those, that was many years ago.
We rarely used the mail order though, that cost extra for shipping. We would just go pick up what we needed, the warehouse was right there at the store, took about 30 minutes for them to pull the order.
That was why we used MW instead of Sears, MW was close by, Sears was on the opposite side of town. Sears didn't have a local warehouse, so anything from the catalog had to be shipped.
Crazy Horse
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Wards also sold an actual farm tractor, their TWIN ROW tractor. Actually, it was a re-badged tractor that
they sold but was made originally by Cletrac (who made the same tractor as their Cletrac GG General) and
then later by the B F Avery Company (who made the same tractor as their model A). The Cletrac version was
sort of a yellow/orange color and the Avery was red, as was the Ward's twin row. Check out the link below
for a look ...
Wards Twin Row Farm Tractor
they sold but was made originally by Cletrac (who made the same tractor as their Cletrac GG General) and
then later by the B F Avery Company (who made the same tractor as their model A). The Cletrac version was
sort of a yellow/orange color and the Avery was red, as was the Ward's twin row. Check out the link below
for a look ...
Wards Twin Row Farm Tractor
We always had Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs...much school clothes shopping there. Do you know why Sears was smaller in length and width, but thicker? Stack them on the shelf...which one goes on top, and is grabbed first? Marketing? Well, Sears did last longer than MW.
rlp in Co.
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Looks to me like those engines were rated a
lot more honestly than they do now.
lot more honestly than they do now.
pat sublett
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Montgomery Ward's flagship store and headquarters was located in Fort Worth on W 7th St. A couple of items of interest. The Army MPs drug the Vice President out of his office in 1942 because he refused to register for the draft .
They had a window display of sleigh and Reindeer in a show window one Christmas, the sales manager stuck a red light bulb in the front reindeer's nose and Rudolph was born.
They had a window display of sleigh and Reindeer in a show window one Christmas, the sales manager stuck a red light bulb in the front reindeer's nose and Rudolph was born.
rdandersom
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I had a Waterloo walking tractor that was a twin to the little one.
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