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Interesting IH history timeline

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Bob

07-28-2006 18:18:30




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I think the information for 1958 is brutally honest. I wonder how things might be today if there had not been the problems with those tractors!




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Hugh MacKay

07-29-2006 08:29:03




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 Re: Interesting IH history timeline in reply to Bob, 07-28-2006 18:18:30  
Bob: Folks like to blame beginning of the downfall of IH on the 460-560 failures, however it started a few years before that. In total there were only 100,000 460 and 560 built, probably affected 90,000 farmers worldwide. A mere pitance when you count the total number of farmers.

Three items truly started the downfall of IH; 1st they flogged fast hitch for 10 years and Harry Ferguson had won the hitch war before IH sold their first fast hitch in early 50s, 2nd Live PTO was far too long coming. 3rd before they sold the first TA they should have made it IDIOT proof.

Those 3 items my friend affected millions of customers world wide. In the mid 1950s IH customers were moving to other companies in droves. They never did return.

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Charlie M

07-28-2006 19:05:17




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 Re: Interesting IH history timeline in reply to Bob, 07-28-2006 18:18:30  
I suspect the company would still be out of business. Not many companies can withstand the bad decisions IH management made not only with the 460 and 560's but with the union later on and what they did to their dealers in the 70's.



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landlord7012

07-28-2006 19:04:30




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 Re: Interesting IH history timeline in reply to Bob, 07-28-2006 18:18:30  
Was IH's demise inevitable or was it internal sabatoge? Seems hard to believe that the poor design of two tractors could start a globally strong company in such a downward spiral. Same thing happened to snowmobile manufacturer Chaparral in mid 70's. Insulation that kept falling down on the motor among a few other stupid design flaws "sank their ship". Read the 1884 entries about Case burning and replacing a thresher for a farmer stating it never should have left the factory. If more companies approached failures with that same spirit, they maybe wouldn't have fialed. Seems they give up from the inside out. Look at Harley Davidson...

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