Photo provided by Wally Kandel The Archer family and friends spent more than a year modifying this 1961 Allis Chalmers D-19 to break the speed record for tractors June 2 in Blytheville, Ark. The ...

The Allis-Chalmers B tractor was powered by a 4-cylinder, 116-cubic-inch Allis-Chalmers engine which was connected to a 3-speed transmission. It produced 15.6 belt horsepower at its first Nebraska ...

The disappointing sales persuaded Allis-Chalmers to launch a publicity campaign with speed as the theme. This included a group of rubber-tyred Model U tractors specially tuned to form a racing ...

Most people remember the old 7.75-acre factory complex as Allis-Chalmers, which operated it in the 1950s and 1960s, but Hammond is most interested in its early history under the original owner ...

Then he started on Allis Chalmers tractors. He’s renovated 10 so far and has another 10 waiting for his attention. Frank tears each machine apart, sandblasts it and repairs the motors.

Allis Chalmers began experimenting with a fuel cell tractor in 1959. Like the New Holland, it used a chemical reaction to produce an electric current that then drove an electric motor.

A fateful farming tragedy more than 50 years ago has helped an Ottawa Valley man finance his true passion - collecting Allis-Chalmers tractors. Now, George Nesbitt is the proud owner of the world ...

At its peak in the 1960s, A-C employed about 6,500 people in Springfield. Allis-Chalmers' first Springfield plant was bought from Monarch Tractor Corp., which was in financial straits, in 1928.

In its search to develop electric power through chemical reactions, Allis-Chalmers in 1951 began research on fuel cells. In October 1959 near West Allis, Wisconsin, this fuel cell tractor plowed a ...

The new-for-1962 Allis-Chalmers D19 tractor took a different approach for obtaining increased horsepower in its diesel engine by being the first farm tractor with a factory-installed turbocharger.