Here's one for you. Two roof cab lights, running boards body color. Dennis

 

Hey that looks familiar! That's my Facebook profile picture.

 

That is a cool picture. A 56 F100, a Ford tow behind combine, and a Ford tractor.

We've got threads going right now about clearance lights and one about Ford tractors. Does anyone know what year that tractor is. It looks like the NAA series (53 was the Golden Jubilee, 54 was like it except it didn't have the Jubilee medallion... I think... please correct me if I am wrong. But I would think Ford would use the newest tractor available for this promo shot in 1956.

Running boards were body color in 56, and wheels and grille (unless they paid for the chrome option) were Snowshoe white.

 

Given the way the tires fill the fenders, what looks to me like the larger differential and pie wheel weights, I would suspect that is a hundred series, probably an 8xx. Since the NAA series ended in '54 and the hundred series introduced about '55, I doubt if Ford would have used an older series tractor in a promo shot if this is actually a promo shot.

 

I'm not a farmer but I can't understand how a combine going one direction can fill a truck pointed at right angles to it??

 

What color is the seat in that truck???


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The hopper on the right side of the combine accumulated and held the grain till the truck came to pick it up. Very small low volume operation compared to the monster combines of today.

 

That's For sure!

And it makes sense that they would use the newest tractor avaiilable. I was not sure when the NAA series ended.

 

looks like a "promotional" pic to me. Everything is way too neat and clean.....also the truck and harvester appear to be exactly the same color?
Also have to wonder about the combine......I don't recall ever seeing a Ford one, not sure they even made one? Kinda looks like a McCormick to me...

 

There certainly were Ford branded implements, unsure who actually produced them: https://m.facebook.com/8098241224036...ce=54&refid=17

 

I had to stare at that pic for quite a while to figure out what they were doing and how that could work. Obviously the bin dumping into the truck has to be stationary during the unloading.

I too was thinking it could be done on the move if the truck was going the same direction as the tractor.

 

Nice picture.This is why Dads 56 M100 was ordered as a lwb with factory overloads I am 100% sure.We also have a 49 1/2 with the overloads as well.