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John Deere New Generation Tractors (Farm Tractor Color History)

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Very good color photographs and informative text about the development and first decade or so of John Deere's four- and six-cylinder tractors, from the 1010 to the 8020. Includes a lot of interesting comments from retired Deere executives and engineers, and neat historical photos of prototypes and testing work. For 10 series tractors, production number charts are broken down by individual year rather than just total production run figures, so you can see how many gas, row-crop 3010s were built in 1962, or how many diesel ag crawler 2010s were built in 1961, etc. There are no such charts for the 20 series, but yearly starting-serial-number charts for each tractor let you approximate total production of say, 3020s in 1966, but you can't break it down by gas, diesel, row crop, standard, etc. Like many books, there are some editing errors: the chart on 1010s, for example, shows the production figures for agricultural crawlers under the heading of "Hi-Crop Crawlers." Having not seen too many hi-crop crawlers, I suspect that is a mistake.

The John Deere book I ordered arrived in excellent condition and was shipped very quickly. I will purchase from this seller again!