McCormick-Deering sewing tool?
I was going through some stuff that I bought at a yard sale, mostly sewing thread and related things. I found an old tool that might be a needle threader, but it has the McCormick-Deering farm machinery logo on it. Does anyone recognize this tool?
Sharon Keeney, Millerton, Pennsylvania
More Ford utility boxes surface
I saw in a letter from Lenny Cornwell about a Ford utility box. We bought one of these boxes in 1948 and, as you can see, we still have it and it is in good shape. I once hauled two large rocks in this box and they were so large it would lift the front end of the tractor up as I drove across the rough ground. As you can also see, they were all metal at that time.
Thank you for your magazine. I really enjoy it.
Blaine Horrocks, Neola, Utah
Editor’s note: Ralph Hurlbert, Raymond, S.D., says his father bought a new Ford 8N in 1948. “He also got the two-bottom plow, corn planter, cultivator and utility box,” he says. “In the late 1950s, he bought a hay sweep to buck loose hay up to the haystack for the farmhand to stack. Many of the implements carried the Ferguson label. I am quite sure the Ferguson label is still on the utility box. We still have the 8N and the implements except for the hay sweep.”
Anyone recognize this carburetor?
Does anyone have any information as to what this carburetor goes to? On the front, it is marked Z A A 4 and below that is A 1.
Ray Waldner, P.O. Box 5,
Hitchcock, SD 57348
(605) 350-2641 (cell);
(605) 266-2769 (landline)
