| Description | The Farmall 300 had big shoes to fill. International Harvester sold a whopping 390,000 of the Farmall 300's predecessor, the Farmall H, during a production run that began in 1939 and ended in 1953 with the introduction of the Super H. Although all of Farmall's letter-series tractors were successful, the H was truly a right-sized tractor and the one that securely put Farmall at the top of the heap. All of the letter-series Farmall tractors shared Raymond Loewy's handsome cosmetic design with its streamlined hood and fuel tank. Plus, all the tractors were introduced bearing the landmark IH logo that Loewy designed: the red lower-case I in the center of a black capital H. The dot over the I was supposed to represent a driver's head looking over the hood of a Farmall. The black upright columns of the H represented the tractor's tires viewed head-on. This has now become the stuff of collectible tractor legend. |
