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Allis Chalmers
Tractors
The Allis-Chalmers
Manufacturing Co. was incorporated in 1913. The expansion of
this company through the acquisition of eight manufacturing
concerns, widened the scope of its business to embrace a
diversified line of power machinery. Shortly after the beginning
of World War I, this company began to manufacture farm tractors.
In 1928 it took over the Monarch Tractor Co. incorporated in
1918) and has since manufactured the Monarch (a track-laying
type) tractor under the name "Allis-Chalmers." When the Advance-Rumely
Co. was acquired in 1931, an agricultural implement company long
engaged in the manufacture of threshing machines and farm
tractors was added.
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John Deere
Tractors
Deere & Co., the largest
manufacturer of steel plows, and the second largest manufacturer
of agricultural machinery in the United States, bought the
Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co. in 1918 and began to manufacture
farm tractors. Deere & Co. had started to distribute tractors
manufactured by the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co. in 1914. In
1926 the name of the gasoline engine company was changed to John
Deere Tractor Co. and became the property of Deere & Co. This
tractor company was based on an organization originally
established by John Deere in 1837.
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J. I.
Case Co.,
the third largest Tractor manufacturer in the United States,
was incorporated in 1880 as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co. In
1929 the name was changed to its present one. The business was originally
established by Jerome I. Case in 1842. The J. I. Case Threshing Machine
Co. was actively engaged in the building of steam tractors in the 1890's
and was among the first to turn to the gasoline tractor. In 1912 the plant at
Racine, Wis., was enlarged to permit starting tractor production purchasing
engines from the Davis Motor Co., Milwaukee, Wis. In 1913 they started building
their own engines. In 1919 the company merged with the Grand Detour Plow Co.
and in 1928 the Case Co. purchased the implement plant of the Emerson-Framingham
Corp. of Rockford, Ill. At this time the J. I. Case Plow Co. of Racine was
taken over by the Massey-Harris Co. of Toronto. It sold the rights to use of the
name "Case" and "J. I. Case" to the J. I. Case Threshing
Machine Co. of Racine.
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Ford
Tractors
Two years after leaving the Ford Motor Company to pursue his tractor interest,
Henry Ford
incorporated
his new
Henry
Ford &
Son
tractor
company
in 1917.
Ford
tested
his
competitor’s
tractors
on his
family
farm and
then
took
them to
his new
Dearborn
plant to
be
examined
by his
engineers.
Ford
wanted
his
tractors
designed
to be
strong
enough
to
support
the
entire
machine
without
needing
a
separate
frame.
In
December
of the
same
year
that
Fords
company
was
incorporated
the
company
started
production
of the
Fordson
tractor.
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International
Harvester Co
The International
Harvester Co., which was the largest manufacturer of
agricultural machinery in the United States, originally
incorporated in 1902 and began producing tractors in 1906. Its
formation united McCormick Harvesting Machine Co and the Deering
Harvester Co. , each a well established firm. The company
maintained a dozen or more manufacturing plants in this country
besides those in Canada and other countries. Tractors were being
manufactured at plants located in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Rock
Island.
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Massey Harris Tractor Co.
The Massey-Harris Co.,
an amalgamation in 1891 of the Massey and Harris Companies
dating back to 1847,Canadian manufacturers of agricultural
machinery and tractors, extended its holdings in this country
through the purchase of the J. I. Case Plow Works at Racine,
WI., in 1928. The J. I. Case Plow Works, incorporated in 1919,
was a consolidation of the J. I. Case Plow Works Co. and the
Wallis Tractor Co., both of Racine, WI. The plow company,
established in 1876, engaged primarily in the manufacture of
plows and tillage equipment; the Wallis Tractor Co. was
organized in 1912 to manufacture farm tractors..
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Oliver Farm Equipment Co. The
Oliver Farm Equipment Co., incorporated in 1929, acquired the business and
property of six manufacturers to become a full line agricultural implement
company. Chief among these were the Oliver Chilled Plow Works of South Bend,
Ind., Nichols and Shepard of Battle Creek, Mich., and Hart-Parr Co. of Charles
City, Iowa, and the American Seeding Machine Co. of Springfield, Ohio. When this
consolidation was effected, efforts were concentrated on the well-known
Hart-Parr tractor, and the Nichols and Shepard factory was converted into one
handling harvesting and threshing machines only. The tractors were produced
under the name of Oliver Hart-Parr. In 1944 the Cleveland Tractor Co. combined
with the Oliver Farm Equipment Co. to form the Oliver Corp. and all of their
equipment and tractors are produced under the name of Oliver.
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Minneapolis Moline Co.
In 1929 the
Minneapolis
Threshing
Machine Company,
the Minneapolis
Steel &
Machinery
Company
(Twin-City
tractors) and
the Moline Plow
Company merged
to form the
Minneapolis
Moline Company .
Both the Twin
City and
Minneapolis
Moline name was
used on tractors
while production
was streamlined.
Minneapolis
Moline itself
becoming part of
the White
Corporation in
1963, joining
Oliver and
Cockshutt. In
1972 production
was transferred
from
Minneapolis,
Minnesota to
Charles City,
Iowa. By 1974
the Minneapolis
Moline name had
disappeared from
tractors in
favor of White.
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JOHN DEERE
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John Deere Industrial
This
John Deere AI Industrial tractor is fitted with a third party crane produced by LaPlante-Choate. The LaPlante-Choate used a second power take-off shaft mounted off the belt pulley to operate the crane
Before
hydraulic technology,
construction equipment
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JOHN DEERE 720 |
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The
John Deere 720achieved many records in the Deere line: It was the largest row-crop two-cylinder model built by
John Deere
;the largest row-crop tractor tested at Nebraska; it provided more work per gallon of diesel fuel of any wheeled or crawler tractor tested up to that time; and the gas and LP-gas models were also the most powerful row-crops of their fuel type.
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FORD NA |
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The 3PT War
a $9.25 million dollar settlement agreement against Ford. Ford agreed to discontinue production of the
hydraulic system using Ferguson's reservoir-side
hydraulic pump
by the end of the 1952 model year. 1953 saw the release of the Ford NA Ferguson, who had begun producing Ford 9N look-alikes that he marketed as Ferguson TE-20 and TO- 20 , suffered in the final settlement for his success. He had manufactured nearly 140,000 of the 9N clones without Ford's permissio
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JOHN DEERE R |
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After years of testing
John Deere
relaesed its first diesel tractor in 1949. The John Deere R was also the first Deere tractor with a live independent PTO with its own clutch, and it in turn drove the
hydraulic pump.
It was also the company's first to be offered with an all-steel cab option.
Total production over five and a half years was 21,294.
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CASE 530 |
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Case 530
First announced in 1960 the Case 530 tractor "Standard Tread" was the base tractor of the extremely popular 530
Construction King. The tractor offered the advantages of the 530 Construction King for drawbar applications. It was a popular tractor for pulling rollers, tampers, scrapers, trailers, and similar
Construction Equipment
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JOHN DEERE 440 |
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1958 The
John Deere 440 crawler becomes the first real industrail tractor . The Integral
+John Deere 831 Loader will become a popular loader option.
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