Interesting tag on a D-17 hood.
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Topic: Interesting tag on a D-17 hood.
Posted By: Joe(OH)
Subject: Interesting tag on a D-17 hood.
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2011 at 12:40pm
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I have a D-17 hood that I bought for parts a while back. I started cleaning it up and found a brass tag on it marked AVCO NUMBER 235. The parts came from a auction close to Coldwater, Ohio. I wounder if this D-17 could have once been owned by Avco-New Idea? Any New Idea experts out there that might be able to shed some light on this? Thanks, Joe
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Posted By: AaronSEIA
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2011 at 1:18pm
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Might have been. New Idea used the 426 in some of their Uni power units. AaronSEIA
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2011 at 12:15am
Seems like I remember seeing brochures for NI equipment hooked to AC tractors. Didn't someone recently say NI tested machines at a nearby farm with AC tractors.
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Posted By: ctbowles58
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2011 at 4:44am
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Most of the AC dealers around this part of the country also sold NI but NI did not own AC. IN later years AGCO did own NI But the way i understand it there is no NEW IDEA any more.
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Posted By: m16ty
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2011 at 9:31pm
Avco was into a lot more stuff than corn pickers and such. I've worked in a Avco plant that made airplane parts. All of the equipment they owned had the tag you described. It's their asset number.
I'd say for sure the hood came off a tractor owned by Avco at one time. It may or may not have been used in the agriculture division.
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