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Ages Cat 
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Posted: 22 Dec 2010 at 7:49pm |
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I have collected AC tractor literature for a few years and have wondered how to determine what year the literature was printed. Some manufacturers dated their literature, but the material that I have is not. My concern is how do I determine which piece of literature is for a 1962 tractor versus a 1959 tractor, understanding that there were differences and improvements made to the products. Do the numbers on the back page lower portion of the page mean anything?
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DrAllis
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Posted: 22 Dec 2010 at 7:53pm |
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Most AC literature was dated on the back....you just had to be able to cipher it.....5810 would have meant October 1958.
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Dans 7080
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Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 3:00am |
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DrAllis could you print more dates for the code?? I have a bunch of lit from the 60s, 70s, and 80s but none show a print date.
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Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 7:46am |
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I'm looking at a piece of One-Sixty literature on the back page "Printed in USA/7103" means March 1971........One-Seventy lit on back page "FE616/677" means Farm Equipment lit #616/ July 1967........ 185 lit "AED-359/7312" means Ag Equip Division #359/Dec 1973.............6080 and 6060 lit "AED 836-8202" means Feb 1982.......not every piece has a date, but many of them do and you need to have a clue of AC history as to what the numbers mean.
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Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 4:15pm |
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Thanks for the learning nugget, Dr. Allis. That's good to know.
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Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 4:32pm |
Just goes to show what one learns on this forum. I am an Allis Chalmers Dealer's son and handled and stamped literature for my father and NEVER knew this. WOW!! No wonder I enjoy this site.
Merry Christmas to all!
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Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 10:54pm |
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Good to know. Now I'm going to go check to see if all that lit that was supposed to be from 1953 is...
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Posted: 24 Dec 2010 at 9:30am |
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My 220 lit says FE-720.HMMM!
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Posted: 24 Dec 2010 at 10:26am |
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Thank you Dr.! That really is a simple code, but I never put it together. Now I have a project to study on sometime.
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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 5:19pm |
 Steve M C/IL wrote:
My 220 lit says FE-720.HMMM! |
Steve, my Two-Ten literature says AED-100 in one corner but in the other corner it says Printed in U.S.A./7103 which is March 1971. Maybe you have something printed in another area.
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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 7:34pm |
Thanks Dr Allis, I didn't know this. Helps me with a pile of AC literature I have just looked and you are so right. Now how do I decipher the codes on operators manuals?
Don
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