[SEL] For the IHC gurus....

Judge Tommy Turner lcjudge at scrtc.com
Mon Jul 10 13:12:58 PDT 2006


Curt,
    What type IH cart do you have?  I might trade you a Bettendorf for 
it.  I think I have a use for the Bettendorfs I've got but I could use 
an IH cart also.

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY


> The weekend was a very productive one, spent sandblasted all day on a 
> IHC cart to place the 5HP Alamo engine on. It's too heavy and it's got 
> to be on wheels for me to handle it. Someday I'll find a correct 
> Bentendorf cart......
>
> The cart is really in excellent shape with so little rust to the main 
> rails, that for the first time, I found some numbers stamped on the 
> inside of a rail. I've not seen this on other IHC carts.....perhaps I 
> simply didn't notice or maybe it was rusted away.
>
> I'm guessing this is a date code. It is stamped on the inside of the 
> left rail at the front. Here is a picture of it after sandblasting and 
> in primer.
> <http://www.oldengine.org/members/holland/IHC%20Date.jpg>
>
> I'm guessing this is the 16th day of Feb, 1906??? What do the IHC 
> gurus think?
> Is this a common mark on IHC carts? Finds like this always bring up 
> fond memories of John Hammick.....he'd have known.
> Curt Holland
> Gastonia, NC
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