I own a 1944 LA Case. It was originally painted in military paint, but is a farm tractor.
The rest of this is totally hearsay, I have no evidence one way or the other. Supposedly, it was realised that a batch of tractors would not be needed by the military, but were desperately needed by farmers here in Australia. Case was already a well established brand here.
Two shiploads were dispatched to Australia. One was torpedoed (so there is a shipload of Case tractors somewhere out there in the Pacific), the other got here and the tractors were balloted out to farmers. The tractor I have is supposedly one of the surviving shipload. I bought it at a farm auction about 20 years ago.
I do know (from personal memory) that farm machinery, building material etc were very scarce here at the end of WW2 and remained so into the early 1950s.
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