Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Massey-Harris No. 21 Combine was commemorated with a Canada Post stamp on 8 June 1996. [11] Massey-Harris also produced one of the world's first four-wheel drive tractors. E.P. Taylor, one of C.D. Howe's dollar-a-year men, joined the board of directors in 1942, and Eric Phillips joined management in 1946.
In the U.S., Allis-Chalmers, Massey-Harris, International Harvester, Gleaner Manufacturing Company, John Deere, and Minneapolis Moline are past or present major combine producers. In 1937, the Australian-born Thomas Carroll, working for Massey-Harris in Canada, perfected a self-propelled model and in 1940, a lighter-weight model began to be ...
The firm merged with its main competitor, A. Harris, Son and Company Limited in 1891, at which point it became Massey-Harris, [3] [1] [8] [6] which produced the world's first commercially successful self-propelled combine harvester in 1938. [9] Massey-Harris purchased the Ferguson Company in 1953 to form Massey-Harris-Ferguson, which was ...
In 1930, the Canadian farm machinery manufacturer Massey Harris bought a controlling interest in H.V. McKay Pty Ltd, with the Australian operations of both firms being merged under the title H.V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd. [7] Throughout World War II, H.V. McKay Massey Harris exported 20,000 Sunshine drills, disc harrows and binders to ...
The letter and standard series of tractors was produced until 1954 and was a defining product in IH history. In 1947, the smallest tractor in the Farmall line was introduced, the Cub . With a 60-cu. in., four-cylinder engine and a 69-inch wheelbase, the Cub was aimed at small farms which had previously relied on horse-drawn equipment.
When the Plow Works was bought by Massey-Harris in 1928, the latter sold the name rights to the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, which reincorporated as the J. I. Case Company. That company, which became majority-owned by Tenneco in 1967 and a wholly owned subsidiary in 1970, was often called by the simple brand name Case .
View history; General ... The Massey Ferguson MF Centora is a series of models of combine ... This Combine is almost the same as the 7282 but it has a tank the size ...
In 1953 Ferguson and Massey-Harris merged, and the combined company Massey-Harris-Ferguson (later shortened to Massey Ferguson) became the manufacturer of the tractors and other designs. By then, many manufacturers had developed their own three-point linkages, and the linkage had become standardised worldwide.