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orangeman 
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 Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 11:55am |
Likely the H4, HD4 and 652, 653 and 655 Crawlers were all tested at the Topeka proving grounds. If memory serves me, Norm Swinford mentioned the AC 840 wheel loaders were also tested at Topeka as well.
Hoping to resurrect this thread to see if Chopperhopper or others have found anything new on the Industrial Proving grounds.
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Edited by orangeman - 15 Jan 2019 at 6:44pm
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waldersha
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Posted: 18 Jan 2019 at 9:56am |
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Don't have anything to add specifically, but I live about 5 miles from the location Chopperhopper mentions. I'll have to ask Dad if he remembers anything about that. He would have been a little kid back then.
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orangeman
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Posted: 19 Jan 2019 at 12:10pm |
Lazyts- Perfect action shot of the good ole 840's at the AC Topeka proving grounds!
Appreciate you posting it! I wonder what was tucked away in the barn up on the hill - looks to be an excavator or backhoe off on the far left side.
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Posted: 20 Sep 2019 at 1:50pm |
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Yes there was testing involved here i live on the property currently
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Posted: 20 Sep 2019 at 2:29pm |
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One of our tractor club members had that Oliver with the loader that picked up the bucket load on the front and dumped it in the back. He displayed it at the Ag Expo in 2017 in Omaha. He has since sold off most of his tractors, he lives near Lincoln, Neb.
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Posted: 20 Sep 2019 at 9:29pm |
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Welcome Andrew do you have any info or story's of the site. Or equipment of your own
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Posted: 20 Sep 2019 at 10:12pm |
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No not really just have an old sign and a bunch of stuff they left behind
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Posted: 21 Sep 2019 at 7:11am |
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I hate to ask, but where out of Topeka was it that I could look on Maps?
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Posted: 21 Sep 2019 at 2:22pm |
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Out on 62nd between jennings and leedy
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Posted: 18 May 2020 at 10:10am |
Man. My 3rd attempt. And by now I'm afraid to waste any time being clever just to drop the message and pic. I see there Andrew mentioned the sign. He's the family that had it for years. But sign ownership has changed hands. She's a 200lb 4'x8 beast with angle iron going around the borders. Stay on the good foot. 20200516_053313_2020-05-18_10-05-10.jpg20200516_053323_2020-05-18_10-07-23.jpg20200516_053246_2020-05-18_10-09-20.jpg 
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Posted: 18 May 2020 at 10:16am |
very cool. thanks for sharing
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Posted: 18 May 2020 at 5:57pm |
nice gravity boots! 
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Thats very nice,, thanks alot
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Posted: 19 May 2020 at 8:16am |
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can you tell me the current address or building site of industrial equipment complex? i go through topeka quite often and have always wondered.
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Posted: 21 May 2020 at 10:09pm |
 CAL(KS) wrote:
can you tell me the current address or building site of industrial equipment complex? i go through topeka quite often and have always wondered. |
The location is listed earlier in this post
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Posted: 22 May 2020 at 9:27am |
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What is ITD engineers?
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Posted: 22 May 2020 at 10:41am |
NomoreJohnDeere wrote:
What is ITD engineers? |
Industrial Tractor Division
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Posted: 22 May 2020 at 10:42am |
SteveM C/IL wrote:
CAL(KS) wrote:
can you tell me the current address or building site of industrial equipment complex? i go through topeka quite often and have always wondered. |
The location is listed earlier in this post |
Austins link is no good. I am referring to the actual plant no the test grounds and reading back through i dont see anything. IIRC norms book list the address but that address is no longer valid in a search.
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Posted: 22 May 2020 at 5:37pm |
Andrew gave this location for the old Proving Grounds ...
Out on 62nd between jennings and leedy
I went to GOOGLE EARTH and 62nd is several miles north of town.... and Jennings Road is a couple miles west of Highway 75 ... see below.
I tried to get a closeup of 62nd ( east west road) and between Jennings and Leedy.... i see two farms ( houses and buildings) south of 62nd... I guess CHOPPER said it is on the west corner of the box below
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Posted: 21 May 2021 at 12:08pm |
The plant was at 1105 NW Lower Silver Lake Rd... Current site of Midwestern Metals / Custom Dredge Works.
A couple of the former employees at MWM worked at the AC plant in their younger years.
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Posted: 21 May 2021 at 12:36pm |
here are a couple GOOGLE EARTH shots of that area....
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orangeman
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Posted: 21 May 2021 at 2:40pm |
Nice Work Steve! Orangeman
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Posted: 22 May 2021 at 12:36pm |
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tagoo said "THE PLANT" was here... Prior to this , we were talking "THE PROVING GROUND".... it appears there might have been 2 places, several miles apart in Topeka.. Im thinking a manufacturing facility and a test center ??
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orangeman
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Posted: 22 May 2021 at 5:24pm |
There is a promo piece of literature showing the AC 714 and 715B Backhoe Series - the building behind the backhoes is Brown Brick and has the good old American Flag flying proudly behind them - see Pages 90-91 in the Bill Huxley Allis Chalmers Agricultural Machinery soft cover book. Am thinking the brown brick building may have been the Topeka AC headquarters and the proving grounds was a seperate address. Anyone know for sure?
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Posted: 22 Jun 2021 at 9:39am |
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ITD office was on Western Ave in Topeka just North of 21st on West side: Russell Story was ITD head man when I was there in early 70’s. Ted Cranford was head of Distribution and Forecasting where I worked: when office consolidated over to plant on Silver Lake road: some management leadership come over too: I went over and continued as day shift line supervisor and then 2 nd shift supervisor till I left in 1976; Was good company till upper management lost sight of what ITD was all about
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