AC literature dating
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Topic: AC literature dating
Posted By: Ages Cat
Subject: AC literature dating
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2010 at 7:49pm
| 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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Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2010 at 7:53pm
| Most AC literature was dated on the back....you just had to be able to cipher it.....5810 would have meant October 1958. |
Posted By: Dans 7080
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 3:00am
| 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. |
Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 7:46am
| 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. |
Posted By: GBACBFan
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 4:15pm
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Thanks for the learning nugget, Dr. Allis. That's good to know. ------------- "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 4:32pm
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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!
Good Luck!
Bill Long
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Posted By: Reeseholler
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 10:54pm
| Good to know. Now I'm going to go check to see if all that lit that was supposed to be from 1953 is... |
Posted By: Steve M C/IL
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2010 at 9:30am
| My 220 lit says FE-720.HMMM! |
Posted By: redline
Date 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. ------------- If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done! |
Posted By: Reeseholler
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 12:50pm
| Thanks? |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 5:19pm
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Steve M C/IL wrote:Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 7:34pm
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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 ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |