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This is a list of companies that formerly manufactured and / or sold tractors. Some tractor and / or agricultural machinery companies have discontinued manufacturing, or were bought out or merged with other companies, or their company names may have changed.
The company was founded in 1916, in Oakland, California, by Rollie, William, Frank and Claude Fageol, to manufacture motor trucks, farm tractors and automobiles. [1] It was located next to Oakland Assembly , then a Chevrolet factory originally built in 1917 by William Durant , which later became part of General Motors .
Mahindra Tractors (India) Erkunt (Turkey)(part of Mahindra) ArmaTrac; Mahindra; Mitsubishi Agricultural Machinery (Japan)(own 33.3%) Trakstar (formerly Mahindra Gujarat and Shaktimaan brands) Mancel (France) Majevica (Serbia) Massey Ferguson (US)(part of AGCO Corporation) McCormick Tractors (Italy)(part of ARGO SpA) Millat (Pakistan)
Around 1900 the company built a number of three wheeled road locomotives. [2] The company was acquired by the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1908 after a legal battle. C. L. Best, the son of the founder then formed his own rival company, the C. L. Best Gas Traction Company which built gasoline-powered tractors.
In 1918, GM bought the Janesville Machine Company of Janesville, Wisconsin, another farm implement producer, for $1,000,000 and decided to concentrate production of both companies in Janesville. In 1919, GM decided to shut down operations in Stockton and run both companies as one operation, the Samson Tractor Company Division of General Motors ...
Brand names become iconic and often even synonymous with the product they represent. It's nearly impossible to imagine these five products being called anything other than what we know them as today.
Pages in category "Tractor manufacturers of the United States" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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