RE: ihc-digest V5 #2

["Shubin, Pete" <PShubin@domain.elided>]

Owen:

I would be interested in any add for a 1972 Scout II.  Please let me
know what you have.

> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:59:09 +0000
> From: owen <renarac@domain.elided>
> Subject: National Geographic Complete on CD IH Ads...The Review...
> 
> Well, IH really didn't advertise that much in National Geographic. But
> the images are all in .JPG format and of fairly high quality. Size
> ranges from 50k to 100k. Images are about 600 pixels x 950 pixels x
> 16M
> colors.
> I'd say about a dozen Scout ads. A half dozen Travelall/Pickup ads.
> Lots
> of PR/"Feelgood" ads in the late '50s-mid '60s. Five ads from
> 1920-1923
> (Trucks!). That's about it. No McCormick ads. No tractors except the
> "Cub" lawn tractors. Interestingly, Caterpillar was a HUGE advertiser
> in
> National Geographic. Some pretty cool ads for them. The only articles
> referring to anything IHC were stories on Illinois. There was one two
> page spread on one of the tractor assembly areas.
> I have found one ad from 1964 that I think we all can relate to. It
> reads:
> Wouldn't you rather play hooky today....
> and take your SCOUT on a holiday?
> 
> I want this bumper sticker!
> 
> If anyone wants the image, e-mail me........
> Owen Minor
> Tacoma, WA
>