March/April 2023 Antique Power
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The March/April 2023 issue of Antique Power magazine is available in our gift shop and will be available in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands soon. Continuing with our 35th anniversary, we are excited to share this magazine with the great tractor enthusiasts that we appreciate so much! Featured on this issue’s cover is the Hughes’ 1927 Allis-Chalmers E 20-35. Here’s a snippet of the cover feature story to enjoy…
Adopting Allis
A 1927 Allis-Chalmers E 20-35 transcends time and space and helps connect two families.
story told by Bev and Beverly Hughes • photos by Carrie Nickerson
To most collectors, every old tractor is unique. It might have an oddball part because of where it happened to be on the assembly line or a replacement part that was added to keep it running. Some show a welding scar after a major repair. Each has its own personality when it comes to the specific steps required to get it to fire and run. If one is fortunate enough to find the right connections, every old tractor has a story to tell. That was the case for one of our “tractor children”—a 1927 Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co Model E 20-35 affectionately known as “Allis.”
We first met Allis in November 1985 when our good friend Stan Dufton asked us to truck home a tractor that he had just purchased. Stan, who lived in a city, also asked if he could store and dismantle it at our place before starting the restoration in his home garage. So, when Allis came to live with the rest of our tractors, we learned her full story and why she was special to Stan.
Once a Prairie Princess
Stan’s father Fred Dufton bought a half section of land (320 acres) near Fillmore, Saskatchewan, around 1911. After several years of prosperity, he traded in his Sawyer-Massey Co. steam traction engine for a new 1927 Allis-Chalmers 20-35 tractor along with a Banting Mfg. Co. Greyhound threshing machine. Stan remembered his excitement as a five-year-old when the large green tractor arrived on the farm. It had a hand-operated spark advance/retard control on the magneto. If one forgot to retard the magneto when stating the tractor, the engine would backfire or kick back on the crank. One day, it did just that and broke his father’s collarbone. That happened at the back end of the farm, so his father drove the tractor a mile back to the house and then drove himself to the doctor.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the March/April 2023 issue of Antique Power magazine!
Other articles in this issue include:
From the Editor
Letters to the Editor
The Canada Connection: The 1916 Brandon Light Tractor Plowing Demonstrations. text by Rick Mannen
Plowing Up the Past: My Rural Connection
text and photos from David TurnerPhotos from the Attic
Scaled Down, Built Up: Réjean Michaud—Exceptional Half-Scale Tractor Builder text and photos by Gordon Barnett
Power Equipment for the Family Farm
A 1949 Allis-Chalmers Model G has served Pear Tree Farms in Delaware for over 70 years.
text by Robert Gabrick • photos by Al RogersWhen John Deere Green Turns Gold
The English family restored a special 1937 John Deere Model D that the company painted gold for its centennial year.
text and photos submitted by the English familyAdopting Allis
A 1927 Allis-Chalmers E 20-35 transcends time and space and helps connect two families.
story told by Bev and Beverly Hughes • photos by Carrie NickersonHighly Experimental
Jim Zarnoch has proof of what few people knew—Bolens was interested in producing a farm tractor.
text by Rick Mannen • photos by Al RogersTech Tips: International Harvester’s “Gas Over Diesel” Engines
text by Ted Kalvitis • photos by Dacy BerryTractor Show
The Book Shed text by Robert Gabrick
Classifieds
Show Guide
Of Grease & Chaff: Soil Percolation and How I Learned to Move Tractors text by Ted Kalvitis
Gallery photo by Robert N. Curran
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