The Allis Chalmers clocked 108.5 mph ... “She’s always been competitive, from high school sports to pulling tractors,” he said. “She was rebuilding superchargers for guys when she was ...

Harry Merritt, the general manager of the Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division ... including Farm Tractors 1975-1995 and Farm Tractors 1995-2005. These books may be obtained from ASABE at 800-695-2723 ...

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 ... farm to begin pulling with ...

Allis-Chalmers adapted the paint-color-branding strategies of International Harvester (red) and Deere and Company (green) by deciding to paint its tractors orange. The move shook up the ...

Visitors often go silent when they walk onto the empty factory floor of the old Allis-Chalmers plant that Raining ... who started a 1889 moving houses and pulling out tree stumps, and nephew ...

At the height of his collection, he often showed at threshing events. Then he started on Allis Chalmers tractors. He’s renovated 10 so far and has another 10 waiting for his attention.

One day, unbeknownst to his father, young George filled out a request for literature from Allis-Chalmers, a manufacturer of tractors, and mailed it away. A few weeks later, a salesman from Allis ...

These are an Allis-Chalmers family and they do indeed show and work their tractors. Bill, the dad, uses his 1960 D-17 to haul people in wagons from the parking lots to the fairgrounds duringtheir ...

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. But while ...

Customers had to wait until 1970 before it was finally put into full production. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing was a major force in big crawler tractors in the 1950s and early 1960s and no stranger to ...