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name confusion IH, Farmall, McCormick

Farmall is the row crop, McCormick Deering, later IH McCormick Deering and later just IH McCormick were the Standards or "Wheatland" tractors. International was the industrial version. As to the Farmalls, were labeled as McCormick Deering Farmall until about 1945, Then IH McCormick Deering Farmall until about mid 1949, then IH McCormick Farmall until IH started labeling everything International, eventually the McCormick and Farmall were dropped, someone else can give the years for that.
 
Also the IH was dropped from the hood label with the introduction of the 100, 200, 300, and 400.
 
IH is the umbrella company formed by the merger of McCormick and Deering. Farmall started out as a name for one of their tractors and eventually became the label for their farm tractors. At that same time the tractors designed more for industrial applications were labeled Internationals, as well as some that were made for export. Up until late '47 or early '48, the hood decals on the tractors read "McCormick-Deering" above the Farmall or International name. After that the Deering reference was dropped.

The heavier W series, the so-called wheatlands, were labeled McCormick-Deerings or McCormicks.

The Wiki link is informative.
Wiki
 
Scotty: I beg to differ with you on Farmall designation. Farmalls were row crop farm tractors only. Other farm tractors up until 1955 were called W series or Standards, and these tractors had International as the main hood decal.

The term Wheatland did not come along until 1955. The Wheatland was nothing more than big fenders and extra sheet metal to protect the operator from wind on the open prarrie. Utilities were also added in 55.

Yes IH was the umbrella corperation formed by McCormick and Deering. Industrials were always called Internationals.
 
CNKS: IH disappeared from the hood, I agree. Just to avoid confusion IH remained on top of grill and was made larger with the introduction of 100, 200, 300 and 400.
 
Giving all the details takes 12 pages. I started to ignore the removal of the IH on the hood, but someone would have corrected me on that.
 
hugh is correct, but for some reason all the u.s. people call everything a farmall. that bugs me too.such as this sight should be called IHC and that would cover everything built!we refer to the correct name here in canada, but i have seen the same is not true from the south.
 
and more info:the industrial version was not called international.they were mccormick- deering then mccormick.internationals came out in 1955. if it said mccormick on it there was no farmall included. confused yet?
 
Oh, lots of people call anything RED a "Farmall." Including Massey Harris. That's the power of brand recognition.

We just never had very many Wheatlands in the Northeast US. When you see a red tractor and have never seen one like it before, it's a "Farmall" until you're told otherwise.

The word "McCormick" appeared above the Farmall emblem until the end of the '06 series in 1967, BTW.
 
I have a 1945 I-9 that had no emblems or decals on it when we got it I happened to get an International emblem for the front of the hood but not sure its the correct emblem and cant find much in the line of decals and emblems for an I-9
 
Funny how everybody tried to give the down and dirty to answer the question in a post, when some folks have devoted the energy to research entire books that would answer it. Still, our efforts are better than a "Buy the book" response. Which is not to say the books aren't a good and fun thing to have on the shelf . . .
 
Basicly, with a few minor exceptions, during the letter series era, all row crop tractors were "Farmall" with either McCormick or McCormick Deering written in small letters above Farmall. All standard or wheel type farm tractors were "McCormick" or "McCormick Deering", depending on years, and all industrial tractors were "International". All were built by International Harvester Company.

Harold H
 
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