I love cars and trucks in this scale but also have a soft spot for tractors and other agricultural pieces....here are four variations on the '50s-era International Harvester/McCormick tractor - three by Ertl and the fourth by Hachette: Farmall 300; Farmall 350; Farmall MTA; and Farmall Super FC. The Hatchette Super FC is overall a more detailed model, but for the price, all
I have some newer tractors by an older manufacturer! Tekno Denmark - The MCCORMICK-IH 434 tractors, in around 1:30 scale even though all their cars were 1/43 at that time. These were some of the last production before the factory closed. Thus, hard to find in mint boxed condition.
[EDIT: I forgot to mention these came out new in 1970-72.]
Eric Bryan wrote a great article on these in Diecast Collector, Issue 278 – December 2020, using some of my images...
Thanks, Karl. Thirty or so years ago I had a small collection of relatively new tractors, including some 1/43 scale by Ertl. I just looked and couldn't find even one. I think I sold them all to pay for a couple of 1/43 Packards. When I was looking, however, I found this interesting older piece, but I can't identify it. It's a tractor, anyhow, somewhat smaller than 1/43.
Thanks Harv - love the Porsche with the disc harrow implement! Who made that? And 1/43, correct? Regarding Corgi, I have virtually all of their ag pieces except the Fordson 54 double-track....haven't pulled the trigger on that (yet)!!
Being a Leyland nut I just had to have this blue Leyland tractor. Also shown is a David Brown (of Aston Martin fame), a Dinky Massey Harris, and a Field Marshall.
Being a Leyland nut I just had to have this blue Leyland tractor. Also shown is a David Brown (of Aston Martin fame), a Dinky Massey Harris, and a Field Marshall.
And a restored real one in a museum.
I have these too John; although the cab on the DB is repro. The Massey Harris is very similar to the tractor I drove for years on our farm as a kid.
Karl - If the diecast police knocked on my door and said I could only keep 5 from my collection, the Corgi Ford 5000 tractor would make the cut. I'm sure like some others that follow this Forum, my first exposure to the word "diecast" was Corgi Toys as a very young lad in the mid-late 60s. I have two of the Ford 5000s from my childhood collection along with Tipper Trailer with 4 calves and the green netting that came with one of them as the Gift Set. Very near and dear and to this day, I hold it in high esteem as a fine model from the Corgi heydays......
