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In 1902, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company, along with three smaller agricultural equipment firms (Milwaukee Harvesting Machine Co., Plano Manufacturing Co., and Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner—manufacturers of Champion brand) merged to create the International Harvester Company. [1]
In 1902 it built 35% of the US's farm machinery. In the 1880s McCormick shifted from a jobber system of distributing their equipment to a branch house system, in which McCormick itself established regional outlets which acted as agents for the manufacturer, selling a full line of products to independent retailers, who sold direct to farmers ...
Farmall was a model name and later a brand name for tractors manufactured by International Harvester (IH), an American truck, tractor, and construction equipment company. The Farmall name was usually presented as McCormick-Deering Farmall and later McCormick Farmall in the evolving brand architecture of IH.
The tractors are named for the McCormick family of Chicago and Virginia. The Doncaster plant was the headquarters of the McCormick company. The plant had a long history of producing tractors for Case IH and International Harvester and under its new ownership continued to produce tractors for Case IH under the terms of a European antitrust ...
Dealers were expected to repaint these tractors back to IH Red before sale. [3] However, some of these demonstrators were sold without being repainted. The market of this little tractor was the small-acreage farmer, and it was designed by Farmall engineers in the years following World War II to replace a horse or mule for farming purposes.
In 1820, there were 17 stock life insurance companies in the state of New York, many of which would subsequently fail. Between 1870 and 1872, 33 US life insurance companies failed, in part fueled by bad practices and incidents such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. 3,800 property-liability and 2,270 life insurance companies were operating in ...
The McCormick-Deering Farmall B-450 was produced in the United Kingdom from 1958 to 1970, mainly with a wide front axle. [10] About 39,000 450s were produced in the United States. [ 11 ]
Tractors And Farm Equipment (India) IMT (Serbia) (purchased by TAFE in 2018 and restarted) TAFE; Telake (China) Terrion (Russia) TYM (South Korea) Toro. Wheel Horse (defunct as of 2007) Ventrac; Tumosan (Turkey)