The Allis Answer TO THE FORDSON

MODEL U, INITIALLY BUILT FOR CHICAGO GROUP, FINDS A NICHE IN THE ALLIS-CHALMERS LINE

Jim Lacey

Allis-Chalmers was the featured tractor line at the Historic Prairie Village 55th annual Steam Threshing Jamboree, west of Madison, South Dakota, in 2017. Prairie Village is just a local show, but there were a fair number of orange tractors present. Inasmuch as I have been helping with parades there for several years, I get the opportunity to visit with individuals about their tractors, especially the unusual ones, so that I’ll have information to use when announcing them in the parade. Mark Stearns, Madison, works with pictures for a living and with old tractors for a hobby. He bought this Model U (serial no. 2017) from collector Roger Ayers west of Madison. The tractor is interesting from several points of view. It seems that in about 1928, a group of manufacturers…

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Farm Collector (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2018

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