Any body have reference pictures for a WD?

What year?? and is it a magneto or distributor?? Late (1952-53) models had black Allis-Chalmers decals on the hood and a black "WD" decal to match on the side of the radiator.....older models had Blue decals on the hood and no model designation on the side of the radiator. Front rims/wheels were all orange.....rear rims are silver/aluminum. Starters and Gens were always orange. Headlights were definately black in later years and maybe all the way thru. I remember Dad's 53 having the distributor black and it was original paint. Personally I like black starters and gens.

The painting booth sequence was old footage because that is a WD....look at the carb and manifold.

Are you sure about the blue decals on the early WDs?  I thought it was black lettering with the long A and S.  Heres a few shots of my Dad's low hour 1953 WD.  The generator on it is indeed black but I do not believe it is original or not.  I do believe the carbs, air cleaners, generator and starter came to the factory black and were painted orange with the rest of the tractor.  I know the distributors were painted as well as the wires.  My 1953 WD has been on the farm since new and has the original wires on it, they were painted and there is a huge glob of paint on the frame that dripped off of the distributor.  Hard to recreate that in a restoration! lol

Jim

Most tractors had the gen & starter rebuilt or replaced at some point and the rebuilder usually painted them black.

Long "A" and long "S" decals were always blue I thought....check with Lyle Wacker in Osmund, Nebraska.

There is a book out called "Original ALLIS CHALMERS 1933-1957"  by Guy Fay and Andy Kraushaar, that goes into detail on decals and decal placement on Allis tractors.  I highly recommend this book to restorers.  They did a lot of research for this book.   That being said, just because the factory had specific placements for decals, that doesn't mean the workers necessarily put them in the correct places.  So, you may have an original WD with the decals located at the bottom of the radiator shroud or the top.

My gut feeling is maybe sometimes the generators got painted with the tractor and sometimes they didn't. In the "Plowing For Profit" video I have, they're using a WD that has black letters on the hood with a long A and S, no WD decal, and the generator is black.

Pa.Pete wrote: Thanks for the info everyone, I am open to any I can get.   Lonn, That's a sharp looking Allis you have. What are the white decals that are on your wheels?   Pete

The book I have says the WD decal bottom should be lined up with the lower hood screw which is where it is in Brian Aharts picture.