Odd Allis WF tractor

I recently purchased an Allis WF.   The front sheet metal is styled but the rear fenders are the unstyled type. The tractor has electric start.   Seriel number is 2232.   From what I read in an Allis book, one is pictured in this variation but none where produced for sale.   
I purchased this tractor from it's second owner.   He stated that this tractor was bought brand new in the Door county Wisconsin area.   The tractor was used in a cherry and apple orchard for the first part of it's life.

Interesting, There is a picture of one in Norm's book taken at the factory, Who told you one like it wasn't sold?  I would leave it the way it is and restore, will be a real conversation piece at shows.

im no wf expert and checking the serial number to dertermine the year would shed a little light, but i think it is completely within the realm of possibility that the original customer had the dealer install unstyled fenders on a styled tractor to keep low hanging branches out of the tire like other orchard tractors.

Edited by CAL(KS) - 04 Jan 2019 at 7:25am

Interesting thing is I have a 1939 salesmans binder and the literature is styled for a WC and unstyled for a WF. I guess it took them a little longer to get the fenders design complete. I do think it is possible your WF was sent that way from the factory considering the year of mfg.

It's obviously an early WF, since it has the slanted exhaust manifold. 

Is there a hole in the hood for an exhaust pipe? 

Can we see pictures of the right side of it and more of the seat? There was a curved iron that filled in between the fender and frame on the unstyled. Who knows, maybe it is a 1 of 1.  

Edited by Unit3 - 04 Jan 2019 at 10:26am

The steering gear is the early Lavine which was used on WF's up to #1903, the last of the unstyled models.  Styled models, #1904 and on, used a Ross gear which had a different steering wheel with a smaller hub.

This tractor did have a snow blade attached on the front.   When looking at the rear fenders, everything looks like it was done right, there is no farmer welding or modifications.   The second owner had it for approximately 35 years.   

Well I don't care what you say, that battery box doesn't look factory. Is there a hole in the hood for the exhaust pipe? I don't think I have ever seen a styled hood without one.

I posted an odd allis on here once and got the same response as you have. If its not in the "bible" it didn't happen. I don't see it that way. From looking at the pictures I would say that was done at the factory. I don't feel it is up to the owner to prove that it was, it's up to the skeptics to prove it wasn't. Could have came out of Canada, Allis was known to ship things that did not sell well in the U,S, up there.

 Everything has a STORY  and everyone has their opinions about that story .

allisrutledge, I am not a WF expert even though they were once very common in this area. Next door neighbor had 3 WF's . I'm guessing that the dealer likely changed the fenders and possibly the exhaust manifold before it was delivered new at the customers request. Norm Swinford told me personally that it was very common in California for dealers to modify an new tractor to the customers needs. 

I know we are getting off subject, but we rarely see a WD without snap coupler in our area. I think a lot depended on how the dealer ordered them.

Edited by WF owner - 05 Jan 2019 at 9:05am

On the snap coupler subject. No WD's left the factory with snap coupler and it wasn't until approx 4800 WD-45''s had been built that SC became standard equipment. Most WD's including my Dad's was retrofitted with a SC.