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GMC pannel servis van

What do you wish from this photo !!!!!!!!

Thanks to Lauren Pritchard from Finning UK to mail me this pic.
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Fri, Mar 6, 2015 1:26 AM
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[quote="QuAD"]GMC pannel servis van

What do you wish from this photo !!!!!!!!

Thanks to Lauren Pritchard from Finning UK to mail me this pic.[/quote]

I like all of it but the individual Cat letters banner would make a nice welcome sign at the homestead. I am going to see if our local sign shop can make me the letters.

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Fri, Mar 6, 2015 5:57 AM
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Actually It looks like a 1932 "B" Model Ford truck as it has the later wheels with wider tires plus the gas tank is under the bed indicating a fuel pump on the engine along with the fact there is no gas cap on the cowl for the gravity feed that Model A's had.
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Actually It looks like a 1932 "B" Model Ford truck as it has the later wheels with wider tires plus the gas tank is under the bed indicating a fuel pump on the engine along with the fact there is no gas cap on the cowl for the gravity feed that Model A's had.
great pic Quad thanks for posting
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Sat, Mar 7, 2015 5:29 AM
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great pic Quad thanks for posting
Did Cat dealers take the tractor and discs to a prospect's farm and spend an hour discing and showing him it in use? I'd be curious as to the financials on that? I could imagine that once a farmer in one area bought one, his neighbors would be paying close attention, so the conversion rate might be $x to demonstrate to that one farmer and then y other farmers also purchased based on watching the farmer's activities with that purchase.
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Sat, Mar 7, 2015 6:11 AM
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Did Cat dealers take the tractor and discs to a prospect's farm and spend an hour discing and showing him it in use? I'd be curious as to the financials on that? I could imagine that once a farmer in one area bought one, his neighbors would be paying close attention, so the conversion rate might be $x to demonstrate to that one farmer and then y other farmers also purchased based on watching the farmer's activities with that purchase.
Neil I wouldnt think the dealers then or now do it like that what happens here is the dealer rings around farmers and tells people they are having a demonstration day and a big group of farmers turn up and all have a look and test drive ect on the one day then the dealer follows up with the farmers after day hoping to get a sale

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Sat, Mar 7, 2015 6:59 AM
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Neil I wouldnt think the dealers then or now do it like that what happens here is the dealer rings around farmers and tells people they are having a demonstration day and a big group of farmers turn up and all have a look and test drive ect on the one day then the dealer follows up with the farmers after day hoping to get a sale

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Dad was a Cat & JD dealer in the 30's and 40's, but I only remember the late 40's on. The Oregon State College field experiment stations would host an exhibition day for all of the dealers occasionally. Dealers would bring out their most saleable stuff and run it around. After one of those he didn't have to beat the brush for customers for a while. They came to him. But it set up a lively competition for the best deal. Farmers were pretty flush after the war; you could sell anything and price wasn't the only object. Cat did OK.
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