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Comfort King Combine Cab
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| Accession #: | 4275.1 |
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| Title: | Comfort King Combine Cab |
| Object Type: | Combine |
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| Physical Description: | Green and yellow combine cab. The roof is green and includes an air-conditioner; the sides are yellow with many windows and a "Comfort King" sticker logo is mounted on the front top wall. The cab itself is mounted onto a partial section of a green combine painted with "John Deere." This partial section includes steering wheel, black leather seat and instrument panel. |
| Description: | Mike Johnson built his first combine cab in an old Colfax garage as "a matter of survival." He was working with his dad and had terrible allergies, so "had no business farming," much less driving a combine during the dusty harvest. In 1968, he formed the "Comfort King Cab" corporation to build cabs for hillside combines. His first model had no air conditioning or filtering, just a blower system. During winter months workers from local families helped him manufacture the cabs, as many as 100 per year. Production stopped in 1977, just after John Deere began producing combine models with cabs already installed. (info from Combine Cab label from Earth Day at the MAC 2012) |
| Category: | History |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Agriculture (Industry)
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| Geographical Reference: | Colfax (Washington->Whitman County) |
| Dimensions: |
Object H x W x L 76 x 50 x 70 in
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| Materials/Techniques: |
steel (Material)
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| Credit Line: | Gift of Grant and Nancy Miller, 2001 |
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