Above is a picture of my grandfather, Morgan Roberts, of Roberts Farm Equipment in Morning Sun Ohio. This was taken in the summer of 1948 at Preble County Fairgrounds in Eaton Ohio. Grandpa sold the Silver Kings new, I believe the mounted corn picker is a ’G.I.’ picker made by General Implement of Ohio, Grandpa also sold these new. When I was growing up we had a new Silver King model 42 that grandpa never sold, it had factory 3-pt-hitch, hydraulics and wide front. We used it in our salvage yard hauling torches and tools out to the field to take off tractor parts for customers. Eventually grandpa had a customer needing a F162 continental engine and he sold the engine out of it. As far as I know the rest of this tractor is still down in the salvage yard that my brother and sister still run.
JR Roberts