Year of Manufacture and Casting Dates

TreeFarmer1414 · Nov 10, 2008

This inquiry or question is a result of a discussion this past weekend. Did International keep records of numbers of tractors, etc. that they manufactured by model? What is the coding for the casting dates whereby one can use it to help determine or verify year? In the last year that a model was made, is there any way to know the last one made by serial number? Did any of this casting or serial number sequencing change when they switched from 'letter' tractors to 'number' tractors? Thanks in advance for your replies. You guys are walking encyclopedias when it comes to tractors and all the other important things that one needs to know.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 10, 2008

First number is the month second is the day and the letter is the year. Our B Farmall was built in LOUISVILLE in probably in August as the castings were 7+23+Q thereabouts and the tractor was delivered to IOWA CITY,IA around the 10th of August or so delivered to the farm around the 15th. Paint still was pretty fresh smelling. Dont know about any other tractors just the history of that B as my brother still has it.

screwstick · Nov 10, 2008

(quoted from post at 01:09:48 11/11/08) This inquiry or question is a result of a discussion this past weekend. Did International keep records of numbers of tractors, etc. that they manufactured by model? What is the coding for the casting dates whereby one can use it to help determine or verify year? In the last year that a model was made, is there any way to know the last one made by serial number? Did any of this casting or serial number sequencing change when they switched from 'letter' tractors to 'number' tractors? Thanks in advance for your replies. You guys are walking encyclopedias when it comes to tractors and all the other important things that one needs to know.

The cast code that IH used was a very simple series of numbers and letters. For a good explanation and examples go here:
http://www.external_link/id/id_004.htm
Remember, this date is the day the part was cast, not assembled or rolled off the line. May have taken month or two before parts were used for assembly.
The code sequence did not change from letter to number series tractors. It is very hard to determine the 'exact' number of any of the tractors that IH produced because of SN jumps, sometimes by the thousands.

ScottyHOMeY · Nov 10, 2008

Try this link and use the directory at the left to get to the year in question.
Try here

Year of Manufacture and Casting Dates

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