It began life in the Advance Rumely tractor factory in LaPorte, Ind., in the early 1930s and eventually found its way to southern Wisconsin.
It most certainly passed through an Allis Chalmers farm equipment dealership, possibly Hanley Implement in Sun Prairie.
A farmer bought and no doubt proudly showed the high tech tractor to his family and neighbors. Over the years the farmer or maybe several farmers plowed many acres with this fine tractor even though it was the last of a long line of outstanding farm equipment produced by a proud company.
In December 2006, it was sold to a metal salvage company in DeForest and soon after to Del Endres of Roxbury. And in Endres' farm repair shop the rusted and long unused and abused tractor is in the process of being reborn as an operating piece of history, as good or maybe better than when it left the factory nearly 80 years ago.
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