I heard a lot of tractors were sold/shipped on steel during the war and the 1st 2Ns were on steel and didn't have lights or a starter or an electrical system to save resources. That didn't last too long. One of my dad's cousins in laws still have the Farmall H they bought during the war and the steel wheels it came on. I aw a display at a store in Ames Iowa last summer it had a John Deere model M in it. They claim that John Deere built a plant in Ames and made war material (bombs I think) after the war they converted it to make tractors producing the M and MTs there. I've seen fire arms made by International Harvester during the war. Companies made many different things and after the war many plants were re-purposed. The Louisville Farmall plant was built to make war material and converted to tractors after the war. The Willow Run plant that GM had was originally built by Ford and they made B-24 bombers there. The politics after the war dictated some of these plants were sold off by the government to selected buyers as they didn't want big companies that built war plants to use them to push smaller competitors out of business. Willow Run was allocated to Kaiser and they Built Kaiser cars there when Kaiser stopped building cars GM bought it.
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