James J. Newberry (whose e-mail address is: jjnewberry@usa.net)
sent us an e-mail last April, which included the pictures on this
page, of his Worthington tractor, #A581. Here is the text of his
inquiry, which led to the article about Worthington
‘Right now I’m trying to get as much information on
these tractors as I can. As you can see, the machine is pretty much
all there. It runs, I take it for a spin just about every day. I
didn’t think it would be as hard as it is to find out what one
of these things looks like.
‘The greatest thing would be if someone out there had some
advertisement literature. Then we would know just what it looked
like from the factory.
‘From what I’m told there were no fenders or headlights
on it, so what I really need to know is how the floor boards and
seat were made
‘I’ve taken off the modern parts and replaced them with
proper period parts. I have a set of Model A wheels to put on it,
the ones in the picture are V8 wheels. I put those on it to play
around and not mess up the good ones, which I put on my Model A
station wagon.’
Mr. Newberry goes on to say he’ll put a story together when
he’s got his tractor restored and that we could share the
photos with anyone else who might be looking for Worthington lawn
tractor info. We thought printing some of the photos in the
magazine in color might be helpful to others.
