F-20 Serial Number/Year Built

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The number is stamped on an aluminum tag that is riveted to the tool box under the gas tank, but the tag is often missing. The serial number is also stamped on top of the left frame rail behind the clutch housing.

Serial number list:

1932 FA501-3000
1933 FA3001-6381
1934 TA135000-TA135661
1935 FA6381-32715
1936 FA32716-68748
1937 FA68749-105596
1938 FA105597-130864
1939 FA130865-134699
1939 FA135700-148810
 
serial number also stamped in a flat raised area on the side of the engine. Serial numbers would often match in all 3 locations, but wasn't a 100 percent guarantee that they would of from factory, altough they did more often than not have a tendency to match. There is a serial number section on the left side of the screen on this site. Nebraska Kirk posted a list. Seems to be some differences between the two. Not sure which is right, but wondering if Kirk transfered some numbers wrong. Somewhere around Nov. 36 was the change over between factory gray to red paint.
 
I copied those numbers directly out of Guy Fay's IH Tractor Data Book.

I checked another source and found another serial number list, different than the previous one I listed :?

This came from the Collector's Originality Guide for Farmall Regular and F-Series by Oscar H. Will and Todd Markle This book has a copyright date of 2007 while Guy Fay's book has a 1997 date. I don't know what to say about the discrepancy other than maybe more information was uncovered in the 10 years between when the books were printed.

NOTE: For those who may not know, the numbers listed are the beginning serial numbers for each particular month.


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The monthly production data was uncovered after Guy Fay wrote his
book. The info in the Markle/Wills book is directly from the Archives
data sheet. No F-20s built in all of 1933.
 
No doubt because of the Depression, plus the dust bowl. IHC slowed production on all their other tractor models and even stopped production of the venerable 10-20 McCormick Deering from May of 1932 to November of 1933. The industrial version of the 10-20 was still built in 1933, but only 231 were made and 45 of the narrow tread 10-20s.

No F30s were made from May to the end of 1932 and only about 1700 F30s were made in 1933. The F12 was still popular with almost 6300 built during 1933. 617 W30s were made in 1933 too.
 

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