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Farmall Cub Tractor Towing Airplane
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Airport worker using a McCormick Farmall Cub tractor equipped with towing bar and special towing bracket to tow a small twin-engine airplane at the Elmhurst Airport.
May 1949
International Harvester Company
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Farmall Cub with Blade Cleaning Hog Feeding Floor
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Farmer O.A. Scipio cleaning the concrete hog feeding floor on his farm with a McCormick Farmall Cub tractor and attached leveling and grading blade.
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1949
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