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Little Red

A Tractor's Restoration

By Bert Hines

Box 81 Cape Canaveral, Florida 32920

Little Red when purchased. Note bullet hole in gas tank.

Once upon a time, a thousand dreams ago, I was a sprightly young thing, brightly painted, agile, quick to heed a master's commands, and all the while, purring like the happy farm cats where I lived. I know the engineering gods who made me were called IHC, and that my line was McCormick-Deering. IHC were the letters found on all my parts, but McCormick-Deering crowned the front of my graceful radiator housing. My makers intended for me to work in orchards and groves, so I was short in my wheelbase to make quick turns, had a draw-bar at my rear, a power take-off shaft there, too, rotating side drums linked to my braking system, and a bolt out front to tug while backing. The number 012-2500 was etched alongside ...

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