Disclaimer: Perhaps this is just useless trivia, but it might explain who the customers were.
Paul Charland wrote:International Harvester Canada in Kentville received a CB&Q 53; flat, would think that was farm implements.
I.H. would have been Jos Van Oostrum's dealership, J.G. Van Oostrum Farm Equipment, near Hillaton, on the way to Canning. Jos' son, Patrick runs the dealership now. Jos is an immigrant from the Netherlands.
Paul Charland wrote:Lyndhurst Farms received a CP 53' FM in April of '75.
Lyndhurst farms still exists just east of Canning, on Borden St. (Hwy 221) and was owned at the time by Jock Pyle, a farmer immigrated from Germany; I believe the farm is still in the family. They were involved in hog farming, primarily, but also grew poultry, grains and had a feed mill. I remember most their two Mercedes Unimog trucks.
Paul Charland wrote:Also in August L. Parker received two OTTX 60' FMs and one UP 57' FM with implements.
Lawrence Parker was the David Brown tractor and New Holland equipment dealer in Medford, just north of Kingsport. My father bought his first tractor from Lawrence in 1968 or 1969 and still has it. Eventually, David Brown was bought by Case, so Lawrence started selling Case tractors. They lost the Case dealership to Van Oostrum's I.H. dealership when Case later bought I.H. and combined the two makes. Sometime in the early 1990's, the dealership, under the ownership of Lawrence's son, moved to a warehouse next to the tracks in Port Williams; it closed a few years later.
Paul Charland wrote:In October R Baltzer in Aylesford received an OTTX 60' FM with machinery... maybe farm machinery, there was a large New Holland dealer there. In November they received two MILW 57' FMS cars, an OTTX car in December.
Ron Baltzer sold Case tractors and equipment, I'm pretty sure, but he might have also sold New Holland equipment.
-mike
