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Flying the Colors => Truly Antique => Topic started by: Charlie V on December 01, 2008, 08:44:55 AM
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This will be an attempt to share a few pictures from the '08 Pageant of steam near Canandaigua NY this past summer. It was interesting for me to see several large old machines that I had never seen before. Enjoy.
Charlie V.
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Nice tractors!
The Turner is the only one that I haven't seen before.
I still like the real oldies, and when I started collecting I only had steel wheeled tractors as I thought rubber tired ones were too new. Unfortunately I sold my early tractors and now could not afford to buy replacements. I have to be content seeing the old stuff at shows and in other collections.
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Thanks for posting those pictures. You just don't see those kind of tractors at the average show here in the South.
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I have a few more pictures of others at the same show that I will put up as soon as I have a chance to size them down to fit. I really enjoyed seeing these old timers and my hat is off to those who own them and bring them to shows.
Charlie
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Here are some pictures of some other real antique machines.
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That Leader must be a pretty rare machine! I can't even recall of hearing of one of them much less seeing one. I never take pictures at shows anymore unless it is of something odd/unusual. It appears the show you were at had plenty of that!
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Thanks for looking, John. That Leader is a very impressive machine. They were built by Dayton Dowd Co. of Quincy Ill. It is a 16-32 model with 5" bore, 6 1/2" stroke and running at 800 RPM. They will built for 3 years, but I do not know which three.
Charlie
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Hey Charlie;
The Leader 16-32 tractor was built from 1920 to 1924 by Dayton-Dowd Company. They also made a C25-40 and a GU 16-32. The C25-40 was a half track and the GU16-32 was a full crawler tractor.
This information is in "Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors" 1890 to 1960, and written by C.H. Wendel.
Krause Publications, 700 E. State Street, Iols, Wisc. 54990 http://www.krause.com
Phone 800-258-0929
I have gotten a lot of good info from this book.
Gene