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Very good color photographs and informative text about the development and first decade or so of john deeres four and six cylinder tractors from the 1010 to the 8020 includes a lot of interesting comments from retired deere executives and engineers and neat historical photos of prototypes and testing work. The common john deere green is a more modern addition to the history of tractor paint colors tracing the origin of todays tractor colors takes us back before the turn of the 20th century late 1800s shows most tractors being black gray and brown drab gray seemed to be the choice of manufacturers for machinery. To some it appeared that deere wanted to sell lawn and garden tractors to people whose favorite tractor color was something other than green the patio series colors were available first for deeres model 110 112 140 tractors later the 120 tractor was made available with these non green color options the effort flopped. John deere enters the tractor business with two models the waterloo boy and the john deere tractor 1918 to support customers during the great depression deere takes on farmer notes and extends payment terms strengthening loyalty for generations to come