Remi (left) and Murray Mosset pose beside their 4300.
Photo: Patrick Mosset
The cab was utilitarian and not very comfortable by today’s standards.
Photo: Brian Kirkpatrick
At the rear, the tractor had just a heavy-duty drawbar and basic hydraulics
Photo: Brian Kirkpatrick
Under the hood, the 4300 used a 13.4 litre diesel that delivered 204 horsepower to the drawbar.
Photo: Brian Kirkpatrick
Glenn and Bob Richards Jr. of Southern Ontario stand beside their tractor.
Photo: Brian Kirkpatrick
This image of Mosset working his 4300 originally appeared in IH’s Canadian Farming magazine.
Photo: IH
A photo from IH product literature in the early 1960s.
Photo: IH
In the late 1950s the farm tractor horsepower race was really starting to heat up. International Harvester had just introduced its New World of Power machines — a line up of new, modern, high speed tractors moving away from the old fashioned, the-heavier-the-better concept into more efficient engines, hydraulics and transmissions. At the same time, John Deere was about to leave its traditional two-cylinder design and launch the New Generation tractors which included the breakthrough models 3010 and 4010.
