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1930 - 1931

1930
Minneapolis-Moline sells both Twin City & Minneapolis-Moline brand names until 1938
Cockshutt begins selling tractors from the Oliver Co. under the name "Cockshutt Hart-Parr"

1931
Allis-Chalmers takes over Advance-Rumely Thresher Company
Cockshutt invents Tiller Combine, which minimizes tillage by planting & plowing in one pass

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1932 to 1935 Time Line in the Development of the Tractor
1932
Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta Canada

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1932 - 1935

1932 Allis-Chalmers
Allis-Chalmers shows Model U equipped with rubber pneumatic tires developed with Harvey Firestone

1933
Ford moves Fordson Tractor production from Ireland to England
Deere elects to carry debtor farmers as long as necessary, building generations of loyalty
Cockshutt buys remaining shares of Frost & Wood Co., making it a wholly-owned subsidiary

1934
IH introduces the W-40 & WD-40, the first 6-cylinder IH tractor (W-40) and the first wheel-type tractor to be powered by a diesel (WD-40)

1935
Rock Island discontinues tractor production
Oliver Corporation begins selling Cockshutt farm implements through its dealers

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1937 to 1941 Time Line in the development of the Tractor
1937
Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta Canada

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1937 - 1940

1937
Oliver drops Hart-Parr name from its tractors
Case buys Rock Island Plow Co.
Deere gross sales reach $100 million
Minneapolis-Moline adopts Prairie Gold colour

1938
Minneapolis-Moline drops Twin City brand name, introduces Comfortractor with enclosed cab

1939
Ford introduces Model 9N, first tractor with Ferguson hydraulically-operated 3-point hitch system
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy restyles new streamlined IH Farmall tractor line
Cockshutt shifts to wartime production, including plywood fuselages for Mosquito bombers

1940
M-H 81 tractor sees wartime service towing airplanes for Royal Canadian Air Force

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1943 to 1945 Time Line in the Development of the Tractor
1943
Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta Canada

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1941 - 1945

1941
World War II puts tractor production on the back burner
Minneapolis-Moline introduces first LPG-powered tractors
Cockshutt develops technology for processing flax fibers needed for linen aircraft fabric components

1943
Cockshutt 80

1944
Oliver acquires Cleveland Tractor Co., adds Cletrac tracked models to line-up

1945
1945 John Deere AR

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1948 to 1950 Time Line in the Development of the Tractor
1948
Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta Canada

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1946 - 1950

1946
Oliver introduces live PTO, an industry first developed by Cockshutt
Cockshutt introduces its first "built in Canada" line of farm tractors - the Model 30, first tractor to feature a 'live' PTO

1947
Ferguson sues Ford for patent infringement; Henry Ford dies
Caterpillar moves from farm to construction equipment
1947 McCormick- Deering W6
1947 Minneapolis- Moline RTS
1947 Cockshutt 30

1948
1948 Case VA
1948 Case DC-4

1949
1949 Oliver 77 Standard

1950
Cockshutt introduces its Model 40 tractor
1950 IH Farmall M

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1951 to 1954 Time Line in the development of the Tractor
1951
Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta Canada

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1951 - 1960

1951
1951 John Deere AR
1951 Massey-Harris 44
1951 Minneapolis-Moline UTS

1952
Cockshutt buys manufacturing facilities of National Farm Machinery Co-Operative in Ohio, opens sales branches in US Midwest, introduces Model 20 tractor

1953
M-H merges with Harry Ferguson to become Massey-Harris-Ferguson
Cockshutt introduces Model 50 tractor

1954
Last year of production of Deere Model D 'Johnny Popper'

1957
Deere expands into Mexico & Germany to become multinational
Cockshutt introduces four new models in its "500 Series" tractor line

1958
John Deere Credit Co. established
Cockshutt is taken over by 'corporate raiders' from New York, who buy up controlling interest and replace Board of Directors

1959
M-F buys diesel engine maker F. Perkins of Peterborough ON
End of production of Minnie-Mo's U series

1960
White Motor corporation buys Oliver Corporation
M-F buys Landini tractor, an Italian Co.

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1957 to 1969 Tractor Time Line
1957
Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta Canada

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1980 to 1987 Time Line
1980
Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta Canada

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1981 - 1990

1981
White Farm Equipment is sold and continues operation as WFE

1984
Deere expands credit business with purchase of Farmplan
International Harvester farm-equipment line bought by Tenneco to be merged with J. I. Case as Case-International

1985
WFE files for bankruptcy; parts of operation are bought by Allied Products Corp.
Allis-Chalmers stops production, sells farm equipment division; becomes Deutz-Allis under German owners.
Ford buys New Holland from Sperry Corp.
Under the terms of the sale, Harvester was obliged to change its name, which it did in 1986 to Navistar International Corporation. By that time its truck-manufacturing operations were basically its only business, though a huge one.

1987
Allied merges White into White-New Idea
Caterpillar re-introduces rubber-tracked Challenger Series farm tractors

1990
AGCO, formed to buy Deutz-Allis Corp. from German owners Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz, begins manufacturing and selling farm equipment under the AGCO Allis and GLEANER brand names.
Ford New Holland sold to Fiat Group; deal states New Holland can use Ford name until 2001

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