AC let certain products get very stale but AC did not completely turn off the R & D. They used very poor decision making and the comments that you and Coonie Minnie made were enlightening to say the least. I am guessing that low margin products such as certain hay and forage tools did not bring enough return for the factories that they were made in. Again I would say that AC should have followed the lead of others such as Ford and looked to build some of those products outside the AC factory system where maybe labor cost less. Either just slap AC orange and white on somebody else's design or use AC engineers and let the outsider build to AC specs. I would still maintain that the average dealer here in the east needed a wide base of products to sell to keep viable. A fair number here in New York had no local market for a self propelled combine so when pull type combines faded that created a gap in the dealer's line. I don't know about the Midwest but there were not enough shortlines available for every dealer who wanted one here and not having forage tools to sell was a definite hindrance. I am sure for certain dealers here who had IH and NH that the district managers cringed having a competitor on the lot so prominently but when the yard is chuck full of new equipment which brings customer traffic it is hard to justify pulling the franchise in favor of a dealer that looks like he is barely in business. The bottom line is if you do not have dealers at some point you will not have a company and that was the direction AC was heading in the mid 1980's.
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