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[email protected] · 10-10-2020, 02:15 PM

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Remember taking a guided tour of the John Deere facilities in Moline, IL and was shown this deer statue made of copper. It was in the Deere family since 1900 and the story was that during WWII the family donated it to the war effort scrap drive. Some of the JD employees then hid the statue by walling it up until after the war and then gave it back to the family later. True or BS story from a tour guide, I don’t know....

10-10-2020, 02:15 PM	#23
[email protected] Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Illinois Posts: 730	Re: Scrap Drives May Have Trashed Cars, But Were the Drives Necessary? E470C9ED-4FF8-4C15-A85A-4CD3D45875E8.jpg Remember taking a guided tour of the John Deere facilities in Moline, IL and was shown this deer statue made of copper. It was in the Deere family since 1900 and the story was that during WWII the family donated it to the war effort scrap drive. Some of the JD employees then hid the statue by walling it up until after the war and then gave it back to the family later. True or BS story from a tour guide, I don’t know....