Posted 11 years ago
xavier56
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Hi
I have this Old Ertl Toy Metal Tractor and do not know what kind of Tractor, Age or anything about it. I have looked and looked and cannot find another one pictured any place ( Google Images and Ebay). It is about 9 inches long and 5 inches high. Any information would be helpful.
Thank you
It looks like a Farmall tractor 30's to early 40's ?
Welcome to CW
It is a IH Farmall 350 in 1/16 scale. It was first made by the Ertl Co in 1985 and has been made on and off several times since. A new in box one is quite easy to find in the $25.00 range and a loose mint one for $10.00 to $15.00.
There would be a muffler and air cleaner attached to that grey insert on the hood.
Yes welcome ! and I was dating the model of tractor not year produced aztom just to clarify it to poster . So was I correct on that ? Thanks bunches if you agree on date . I am from International Havester town :-) My Grandma worked there all her life .
The box for my toy one says they (the real ones) were made from 1956 to 1958 at the Rock Island Ill plant. They made 16.670 of them.
Most of what I know about real tractors, I learned from the toys,lol
Sorry I missed your first post Mani, it wasn't there when I started my post. I got a phone call while typing.
Farmville made tractors produced much earlier than that. My Cousin has a 1948 one :-) Maybe the model on your box was made those years aztom ?
In 1926 IH's ( Internationa Havester)Farmall Works began production in a new plant in Rock Island, Illinois, built solely to produce the new Farmall tractor. By 1930, the 100,000th Farmall was produced. IH next set their sights on introducing a true 'general-purpose' tractor designed to satisfy the needs of the average US family farmer. The resulting 'letter' series of Raymond Loewy-designed Farmall tractors in 1939 proved a huge success, and IH enjoyed a sales lead in tractors and related equipment that continued through much of the 1940s and 1950s, despite stiff competition from Ford, John Deere and other tractor manufacturers.
Sorry for the confusion, I was referring the the model posted, the 350. I have several hundred Farmall toy tractors.
Thank you all for the Help - Very Appreciated
You are welcome, Now go dig some more stuff up,lol