Re: Re: 3,000,000th IH tractor

Posted by Steve - IN on June 27, 2003 at 05:36:01 from (12.223.205.149):

In Reply to: Re: 3,000,000th IH tractor posted by Guy Fay on June 27, 2003 at 04:57:11:

I wonder if the guy did the counting was in PR or accounting (or if he worked for Arthur Anderson on the Enron account; in which case PR and accounting are one in the same).

Reason I say this is: A quick count of the numbers produced on this page:
http://www.antiquetractors.com/Research/prodnum.htm

gets me from 15-30's to Super letter series and totals about 2.5 million tractors by about '54.

Number 501 300U was built around '56 or '57, I suppose. Next milestone was around '65 with the 4 millionth being an 806, I read.

Question is: if it took ~8 years to make a million tractors from ~'57 to ~65, where did half a million tractors come from in the two to three year '54 to '57 time period? My guess is that some foreign built tractors might be included in the totals -- or, the decline in IH production starting around 1960 is more dramatic than I'd imagined. Anybody got a good handle on this?

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