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A Glimpse of the Ed Irwin Collection

By Ed Irwin

117 Simcoe Street, Ontario, Canada

John Deere "GP" serial #202075

This is my John Deere "GP" serial #202075. It was made in Waterloo, Iowa in 1928 at the Waterloo Tractor Works of John Deere. It has the left hand exhaust and the air breather is a small cylinder behind the radiator. The tractor is equipped with a power lift attachment which has a pitman arm to raise and lower implements as well as a front and rear PTO shaft. This was the first tractor with four sources of power: drawbar, belt pulley, power take off and power lift to raise and lower mounted implements. Nebraska tests 153 (1928) show the horsepower to be 10 drawbar and 20 on the belt. I restored this tractor in 1976 from a rather sorry mess and in 1980 was able to obtain a full set of steel wheels for it, including extensions. One rear wheel had a t...

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