2020.01.04 Tractor Pic

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1938 Allis-Chalmers WC

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Serial # 66875. Styled versions started at Serial # WC74330
in 1938.
Does the size of the rims and tires look correct?
 
No they look like Farmall wheels. Although F&H, they were larger diameter. Allis used 24" wheels. Not impossible to find, it would look better with the properly sized wheels.
 
I think you?re on to something with F&H. It?s on Meccums site
where they show the right hub.
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My first tractor was a 1938, WC62672, never sold a tractor that I don't miss. This brings back that feeling, mine had 13 x 24 rear tires on round spokes.
 
I used to pull a WC with 36" wheels and tires,the original WC 36" were a different style than those, the ones I had were like the ones in the picture came off a Farmall.
Mine had a WD45 motor and could get it in the 3000 lb class.
 
A friend of mines father sailed on the liner Queen Marys maden voige in June 1936 as
a merchant seaman and on the return journey from New York he brought back as deck
cargo a new AC WC tractor. This was because he had just taken the tennancy of a
Crown Estate farm in Lincolnshire here in the UK. My friend still has the tractor as
part of a very large farming muesim on his farm. MJ
 
Our 1936 WC, purchased new in April, 1936, had round spokes front and rear. My uncle's 1937 WC, purchased new in 1937, had discs front and rear. Your '38 was back to spokes. Go figure. Allis was famous for that. I think it was a matter of which parts were coming down the line. Also, they didn't make any big deal about model year changes. Some '36's had the fan shroud, ours didn't.
 

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