Claire: I have never heard of this Lend Lease program. I was born in 1942, in a place called Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, a place with rather sparce agriculture, 95% of land mass forested. Since we were located 60 miles from the Port of Halifax, the place where 80% of Canadian troop movements for overseas occured, a great drive was made to supply ships headed for war with local agricultural products.
My dad bought a new W4 in 1942, I've always assumed he bought it, at least he traded it on a new H in 51. No other farmers used this W4, however dad did do a lot of custom work for other farmers. I also know he wanted an H, but had to settle for a W4, as row crop tractors were only being shipped to dealers with a lot of row crop customers. I also know IH moved a lot of W series tractors into this small agricultural area, during the war, (mainly hay crop with dairy and beef cattle.) There are a lot of 1942-W4 in that area. I also know as a result of Halifax being a major military port, my dad was able to increase his dairy production 10 fold during WW#2 and 10 years that followed.
This thread got me curious, particularly since bankers of that era were quite tight fisted. How did these guys, just coming out of a depression afford all this new equipment?
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