Combines Can you Identify This Vintage Massey CombineIJ

Just a guess but is it the Massey Harris 21 from the Harvest Brigade. I was also told they produced them in some quanities after the war. There are some of those around my area. I even have some pictures of my great grandpa driving one.

The combine in the picture is a 21A. My dad bought one new in l949. The 21 had a draper head and the 21A had an auger head, otherwise I think they were pretty much alike. My dad did alot of custom work in our area (NC Iowa) for $4 per acre. This was the first combine I ever ran. It was a good machine and would put a real nice sample in the 45 bushel hopper.

looks like a R72.

My dad bought a used 21A like that in 1956. I was 10 years old, I drove the combine, Dad hauled the wheat. That 21A was a big improvement over the pull type Baldwin Dad had for years before that. K.A.

there is a good article about this very machine in the farm collector magazine from kansas, of recent, check it out.

Can't be an R 72, there isn't a service truck following it around.

I believe that during wwII Massey talked the gov't into letting them produce 500 extra model 21 combines because they would save 500,000 gallons of fuel and harvest an extra 500,000 bushels of grain. This rollout, coupled with Canada removing Massey's wartime rationing in 1945 gave the company quite a boost.

what yr did massey-harris build there 1st self-propelled harvesterIJIJ sorta curious i have a picture of a HV Mckay unit here dated 1937

OK, we hve got the combine figured put and that was easy, how about the truckIJ What do you think it isIJ My vote is for a Studebaker.