case delivery truck

Anybody know anything about this truck

One of my dealers had one of those C model Ford's with a roll back deck. I got to drive it a couple of times for him; it was a good truck.

There is a story about this subject a while back in the posts. CASE and ford had a deal worked out the trucks and another separate deal on pickups.

Don't know aboot the operation, but I do know that is a lot of overhang on the back. The front end is pretty light, makes it stear easer.

Does that say "Service and Sales Patrol?"

think how proud a farmer and his kids were when that truck pulled in the yard with their big new tractor and plow. top of the world for weeks.

Dad had the truck from the old case dealer back in the 50's He gave it away to a friends kid. It is still around. I used to drive it as a farm truck. Had the Flambeu Red from the bottom of the windows down and The case cream from there up.

My dad had all the info from Case for those trucks. He elected to buy a 1960 ?? Chevy cab/chassis with a 292 inline 6 and 4spd. He ordered in a Swartz tilt body form one of our equipment distributers, and mounted it here in the shop. It didn't have all the fancy boxes and flareing below the deck. Just a homemade chain box on the drivers side. He had one of the guys in the shop paint it all up Case colors, and my grandfathers brother-in-law was pretty talanted with a paint brush and did all the lettering. Dad cut and sawed out Ash for the side racks. The 6cyl coupled to only a 4spd wasn't really suited to handle the bigger tractors like the 800 and 4b STA plow in the pic., We have a lot of hills, and dad put a rod through the block climbing a long hill back up out of the valley.
He then replaced it with new cabover chevy with a 427 V8 and a 5spd/2spd axle. We switched the swartz deck to the new truck, and this one was painted white and flambeau as Case changed color schemes. after we wore that one out, I bought a used Ford LN9000 with a 671 and 10spd ranger. For the third time we switched the swartz tilt bed, but we tottaly rebuilt the bed and lengthened it to 24' plus the 2' hyd approch plate. buy then we also had a tractor trailer with a Swartz single drop trailer with hyd beaver tail. These trucks were painted to Case fleet colors. White over Gray with flambeau and black trim accents.
I didn't do a very good job of putting the pics in progression, but the pics show our trucks from the one in question, until our closeing in the fall of 86. Prior to the tilt bed, Dad and Gramps had a Chevy with a sissors lift dump body and some big heavy planks.
Loren, the Acg.

Had better hope where ever he was going had something to unload that plow! I don't think that he would EVER be able to back that thing off?!?!

Bryce

Loren ,,, nicepix and story line ,, and good progression and evidence of family teamwork ,,. there is a lot of money in suspension at a dealership ,,it is a shame the big FAT boys took over .. but that is the way of corporate communism .

I have a post card with a different view..

I am willing to bet that bad just tilted and did not slide. The first dealership I worked at had one that way. It was pretty steep to load so you ended up using the winch a lot.

The tilting only is why it would have such a long tail.

Nice Ford.

The new 1070 I bought in the fall of 74 was delivered on a cabover Ford with a plain flatbed. I'm pretty sure it was a tilt bed but I'm not sure on that. Could it be 40 years ago already? The dealer was Mather Implement in Lauren's Iowa. That truck hauled a couple of B Farmalls home from a farm sale for my dad. I still have one of the B's. I rode with 'Huey', the salesman on icy roads to pick them up.

I drove a big Chevy with a Swartz rollback for a Case dealer in Pawnee county Kansas in 1972, but it wasn't painted up like that. Also didn't have all those tool/chain boxes under it.

YUP it does.

Local dealer had one. Don't remember the tool box under the bed just like that but it had the graphics. Seemed like I heard somewhere or from the dealer that Case had a promo where Case Corp put them together. Dealer would get to Racine and drive truck with a tractor loaded home.

jt

Especially with that undercarriage skirting dovetailed like that. It would be pretty steep to load things on, especially if it had a plate steel floor.

Here's a picture from August 1960 of my dad's 930 being loaded on one of those trucks. He had bought the tractor new in the spring and the dealer asked if he could borrow it to display at our local agricultural fair. I have other pictures of the truck but not on this computer. The truck was a cabover Ford.

That style of C cab is also know as a "two-story falcon". Google the mid 60s falcons, same styling. I have a 56 C600

Cool pic what is patrol ?

It would be pretty hard to back it off for sure .

Thanks for posting pics and the story . I always enjoy hearing about old dealerships to bad all the little ones are gone now . We use to have Alis chalmers international and John Deere ford dealer about 70 miles away that I always loved to stop at and see blue and white tractors all are gone now .

(quoted from post at 20:01:20 03/15/15) Cool pic what is patrol ?

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Probably some PR guy's idea to jazz things up a bit - has more flare than Sales & Service Truck. :lol:

As I recall there was a cable and winch to pull on or ease the tractor off the deck.

that is one neat picture.

There was a long 6" cylinder ancored at the front of the deck. It had a 8-10" pulley on the rod that extended into an enclosed rectangular tube.
One end of the winch cable was also ancored at the front, and threded thru the pully and back to another pulley up front that extended up a couple inches above the deck, and when the cylinder was retracted the cable reached the back of the deck. When extended, the cable hook came back to the bed pulley.
Loren