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Last Year For Tractor Brands II

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Harold H

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This thread is a continuation of the thread started 2/9. It is a list of the last year of production of North American brand name tractors under their independent ownership before being merged or purchased by other companies, and the name of the company that purchased or merged with. Some of the dates may be off just a little due to conflicting information in various research resources. Allis Chalmers 1985 AGCO; Case 1967 Tenneco; Cockshutt 1961 Oliver; Ford 1991 New Holland; International 1985 Tenneco; Massey Ferguson 1991 AGCO; Minneapolis Moline 1972 White; Oliver 1975 White. Both Allis Chalmers and International also had large construction equipment divisions. Allis Chalmers sold their construction division to Fiat in the late 1970's and International sold their construction division to Dresser in the early 1980's.

Harold H
 
You're still wrong on the Oliver and Moline. Even if you change the parameters. Oliver and Moline were seperate farm equipment divisions of White Motors. White was just the parent company,it wasn't the White Farm Equipment Company yet. Like I said,most of the Olivers ended in 75,not 74. The 2255s were built until 76. It's pretty conclusive too that the last Moline to come out of the actual Moline factory was in 72. Later for the Oliver/Moline hybrids that came out of the Charles City Oliver plant.
 
A source I have read said final arrangements for completion of a transaction where White Motor Company would assume ownership of Cockshutt's Farm Equipment division were completed in January of 1962. White already owned Oliver at that time. In 1962 at the Brandtford plant all production of the 500 series ceased and a Cockshutt built tractor would never be made again. Oliver built Cockshutt tractors from then on to satisfy Cockshutt customers. Jim
 
It gets murky going back into the 70's with White/Oliver/MM. We had a 1355 oliver in that time period. It was a 1973 model. The Oliver 1355 was made in '72, '73, and '74. It was only produced in those 3 years. Some '74's could have been held over on dealer lots until 1975 or maybe 1976. You could be right about the 2255's,they may have been produced later. Don't know for sure about 1355 MM, but imagine there last year produced was '74 also.
 
You said 'brand' twice, didn't you? I would think corporate ownership is another subject. If the subject was food, you'd drive yourself insane figuring out who owned what.
 
In 1985 Allis Chalmers was sold to K-H-D ( Klockner-Humboldt-Duetz) Ag of Germany, the oweners of Duetz-Fahr and later renamed Duetz- Allis than later it became Agro.
 
There is still plenty of confusion on this subject. I should have titled it "Last year for brands to be produced under original corporate structure". I don't know how I failed to find the 1985 purchase of Allis Chalmers by Deutz. And also the Masser Ferguson Corporation was formed by the merger or purchase of Massey Harris and Harry Ferguson in the late 1950's or early 1960's. As to the actual corporate history of Cockshutt/Minneapolis Moline/ Oliver/White, the further I look the more confusing it gets.

Harold H
 
Production continued on for quite a while after that for the 1355 though. They changed the sheet metal and called it a White 2-150.
 
"Produced under original corporate structure"? That's like saying they quit making Chevys when they became a part of General Motors isn't it?
 
No, not that detailed. I mean like Allis Chalmers built by Allis Chalmers Corporation, Internationals built by International Harvester Co, Olivers built by Oliver Corporation, etc.

Harold H
 
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