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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 ...
Cyrus Hall McCormick patented an early mechanical reaper. 1900 ad for McCormick farm machines—"Your boy can operate them" 1921 International Harvester Model 101 on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa. 1925 International Model 63 Street-Washing Truck on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa.
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 McCormick-Deering W-4 was based on the Farmall H and used the same International Harvester C152 152-cubic-inch (2,490-cubic-centimetre) displacement gasoline engine, with options for kerosene and distillate fuels. A five-speed sliding-gear transmission was standard, with fifth gear disabled on tractors that were delivered with steel wheels.
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 ...
McCormick (USA) – merged with others to form International Harvester; McCormick-Deering (USA) – by International Harvester; McCormick TOE (Turkey) – licensed IH; McDonald (Australia) McKee Ebro (Canada) McLaren (England, UK) – see J&H McLaren & Co. MDW-Fortschritt (East Germany) Mecavia (France) Medved (Russia) MeMo (USA)
Ohio Mutual Insurance Group was founded in 1901 as the Ohio Mutual Tornado, Cyclone and Windstorm Company, offering insurance to farmers. [7] It was incorporated in Columbus, Ohio and its first office was established in Bucyrus above what is now the FC Bank on Washington Square.
Grange Mutual Casualty Company, commonly known as Grange Insurance, is an American insurance company based in Columbus, Ohio. [4] Grange market's network is about 3,600 independent agents to offer home, auto, life, and business insurance protection to policyholders. [5] The company, formed in 1935, now operates in 13 states.