I was blessed this weekend!

I had the privilege of buying the parts inventory from some A-C dealers when the were cut off from Allis Chalmers. Mr. Don Walter of Rio Creek, Wis. gave me the opportunity to pretty much start my own Allis Dealership (which has been a dream of mine). A big huge THANK YOU to Don for this opportunity! Before Walters of Rio Creek, Wis was dropped by Allis, he bought the parts inventory from Garrite, Duck Creek Wis; Butch Levy Garage, Kewaunee Wis; Knospe Bros, Algoma Wis; Alden Lang Imp, Denmark Wis; and Tauchek & Debauche, New Franken Wis. when they were discontinued by Allis. This is so awesome! I was also able to get a parts counter with gasket drawers, the index card inventory system (before the fish system), A-C Manuals and 6 pallet crates of bigger A-C implement parts. I found it difficult to sleep last night with all this stuff in my shop!

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That sounds like you hit the Jack pot great find . Randy

Awesome, great find, is the pictures from your place.

Alex, if the bands and shoes are for a CA I would be interested in a set.

It's the color tractor my grandpa had!

Thanks Guys! Don (Walters) told me that the dealers that got cut off before him were all smaller and within 30min drive from his A-C dealer in Rio Creek. A couple years later, Allis dropped him as a dealer because there was a very large A-C dealer 30 min north in Sturgeon Bay. They are still in business as AGCO.

Yes, the pictures are from my shop, and I am willing to sell any parts you may need. Let me get it all organized this week and then Ill respond to any parts inquiries after I know what I have.

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HOLY CHIT!! ROAD TRIP! Clap

IF it ever quits snowing Alex. According to the weatherman we're supposed to be getting BUNCHES of RAIN in the coming week. THANK GOD it's not cold enough for you know who, to put out that white crap, at least this far south. MAYBE up by you......

I'll be in touch!

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19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17

How big is the card file? I have seen them 3"x5" and I have seen them where they are on a cart and the cards themselves are about the size of a file folder.

Wouldnt mind seeing a photo of the parts counter either LOL

Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"

1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start

Wow! Surprised you could sleep at all! Great score!

Congrats! Nothing more interesting than going thru NOS parts. I was fortunate to obtain NOS parts from an old dealership in Townsend, MT back in '05. Most of my stuff was pre 1970...I sold a bunch on Ebay when I first got it, this last Dec and Jan I auctioned off another portion. Lots of fun and made lots of friends!

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This year:

I bought the small amount of parts that were left from an old Allis dealer here a couple of years ago. Most for Allis B, W series engines, and some stuff for D series. I was going to sell on the classifieds, but a lot of the parts are for my collection and there are a lot of those tractors still being used around here so I decided it would best to help keep the locals going. Traded an old JD press drill for the whole lot.

Yea that's the index cards we have to. I'd think the reason the cards don't show what tractor or equip they fit is becouse lots of times one part fits multiple pieces. Plus think of the chain of events back then. The farmer came in with part number, or came in to you and you went to the parts books on your bench top looked up part number then you went to cards looked up number to get bin location.
Like said above, my grandfather in his older years never marked cards when he took parts out.

Alex,

Thanks for posting the picture of the index cards. That brought back memories from my Dad and Uncles dealership. I remember about once a year we would do a physical inventory count of all the parts bins. I remember that sometimes the card would say we had 2 or 3 of some part but in reality we had 6 or 7. It rarely happened the other way; seems Dad always like to have plenty of inventory. People would come from miles away and/or call cause they knew Dad used to keep a lot of inventory in parts.

Maybe not the best financial move, but it brought in business.

Keep the pictures coming and thanks again.

Brian

SCORE!!

"If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer"
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Well I've been busy all year with my repair shop, but somehow I inventoried all the NOS parts with the old dealers index card system on lettered and numbered shelves. I have been adding cards when I do a repair for a customer and have to order parts for the tractor. I have the service counter situated and the gasket counter organized. There are still a lot of Allis's in use on farms and for yard chores here in Wisconsin (and other states that I ship parts to) and I'd like to provide the service and parts to those people to keep there Allis's operational. And eventually design and produce new tractors bearing the A-C name.

So my service counter looks like this when you walk in the door, the gasket counter with parts catalogs, shop manuals and the inventory cards sits behind the service counter.

Say a customer is looking for a D17 governor spring and a Knifehead for a 80R mower. If they don't know the part numbers, I go to my parts catalogs or the Agco website.

Now that I found the part numbers, I go to the Index card inventory system to find the bin location and the price of the part.

I see the mower knifehead is located on shelf A114 and is $20.50. The D17 governor spring is located on shelf A5 and cost $25.75. If the customer is okay with the price, I go ahead and get the parts from the shelves.

Anyway that's how I have my system set up. I would like to know from the guys who used to be dealers or who remember those days, how did you get a sales slip? Was it written out with carbon paper or was it typed out with a calculator that spit out a receipt?

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Cool Alex. Yea we have some old carbon copy slips. I was just looking at an old one and thought it was funny the date was printed 196_. Gues it's a little outdated.

Did you get any lawn an garden stuff

Edited by Mikez - 13 Nov 2019 at 11:05pm

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