Case Corporation
Case Corporation | |
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legal form | |
founding | 1842 (as JI Case Threshing Machine Company ) |
resolution | 1999 |
Reason for dissolution | Merger with New Holland to form Case New Holland |
Seat | Racine , USA |
Branch | Agricultural machinery manufacturer , construction machinery manufacturer |
The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of agricultural and construction machinery that had existed since 1842, which was merged into the CNH Global Group in 1999, which since then has been running the Case IH brands for agricultural machinery and Case CE for construction machinery.
history
In 1842, Jerome Increase Case (1819-1891) founded his JI Case Threshing Machine Company in Racine, Wisconsin . Case sold more threshing machines than tractors at the turn of the century and was called the "king of threshing machines".
Case made its first gasoline-powered tractor in 1895.
Case took over the Pierce Motor Company in 1910 and manufactured his first gasoline-powered automobile a year later. In 1919 a manufacturer of plows was taken over with the Grand Detour Plow Company. In 1927, Case stopped car manufacturing (Case Jay-Eye-See Cars).
In 1928, Massey-Harris acquired the naming rights to the JI Case Plow Works, which they had taken over . In the same year, the agricultural machinery areas of Emerson-Brantingham were also purchased .
In 1937 Case took over the Rock Island Plow Company, a farm equipment and former tractor manufacturer. With the American Tractor Corporation one took over a manufacturer of construction machines in 1957.
In 1967, the Kern County Land Company, the majority owner of Case, was taken over by Tenneco . In 1968 the two areas of agricultural machinery and construction machinery were separated. In 1969 Tenneco increased its stake in Case to 91%, a year later Case became a 100% subsidiary of Tenneco.
In 1972 David Brown was taken over, but the brand name disappears from tractors in 1983. In 1985, the agricultural machinery division of International Harvester was taken over and from this, Case IH was formed with its own agricultural machinery division. 1986 the manufacturer of large tractors Steiger was taken over.
In 1995 Case IH merged with Steyr's tractor division . In 1996 the backhoe loader manufacturer Fermec was taken over . At the same time, Tenneco began to carve out the company from the group, which was completed in 1996.
After Case 1999 Fiat took over, formed Fiat of Case and also belonging to the Fiat company New Holland the Group Case New Holland , shortly CNH Global .
Excursion into the automotive industry
After the JI Case Threshing Machine Company the Pierce Motor Company in Racine, manufacturer of the Pierce Racine automobile. In 1911 the first automobile appeared under the name Case . The car, which was available with five different bodies and 4-7 seats, was powered by a 30 bhp four-cylinder engine (22 kW), which was essentially based on the previous model. In 1918 the first six-cylinder car with a Continental engine was offered and the company's automotive interests were grouped under the Case Motor Car Division . From this point on there were only six-cylinder automobiles, which were also sold under the name Jay-Eye-See (according to the English pronunciation of the initials of the company's founder JIC) from 1925 . The wagons built a reputation for reliability that was similar to that of tractors. In 1927 they gave up the automobile industry because they no longer saw themselves in a position to stand up to their larger competitors. From this point on, Case concentrated again on the construction of agricultural and construction machinery.
Models
model | Construction period | cylinder | power | wheelbase |
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30 hp | 1911 | 4 row | 30 bhp (22 kW) | 2921 mm |
L. | 1912 | 4 row | 30 bhp (22 kW) | 2946 mm |
M. | 1912 | 4 row | 40 bhp (29 kW) | 3048 mm |
U | 1913 | 4 row | 30 bhp (22 kW) | 2921 mm |
O | 1913 | 4 row | 40 bhp (29 kW) | 3150 mm |
25th | 1914-1915 | 4 row | 25 bhp (18.4 kW) | 2794-2934 mm |
30th | 1914-1915 | 4 row | 30 bhp (22 kW) | 3048 mm |
40 | 1914-1915 | 4 row | 40 bhp (29 kW) | 3150 mm |
T | 1916-1917 | 4 row | 40 bhp (29 kW) | 3048 mm |
U | 1918-1919 | 6 row | 50 bhp (37 kW) | 3175 mm |
V | 1920-1922 | 6 row | 50 bhp (37 kW) | 3200 mm |
X | 1922-1925 | 6 row | 52.5-55.5 bhp (38.6-40.8 kW) | 3099 mm |
W. | 1922-1923 | 6 row | 70 bhp (51 kW) | 3277 mm |
Y | 1924-1927 | 6 row | 66–70 bhp (48.5–51 kW) | 3353 mm |
Jay Eye Lake | 1925-1927 | 6 row | 52 bhp (38 kW) | 3099 mm |
Car production figures
year | Production number |
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1911 | 1,236 |
1912 | 1,516 |
1913 | 2,230 |
1914 | 2,430 |
1915 | 2,630 |
1916 | 2.136 |
1917 | 2,086 |
1918 | 1,613 |
1919 | 1,410 |
1920 | 1.936 |
1921 | 2.136 |
1922 | 1,813 |
1923 | 1,315 |
1924 | 1,536 |
1925 | 1,315 |
1926 | 636 |
1927 | 187 |
total | 28.161 |
Web links
literature
- Beverly Ray Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 . (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Randy Leffingwell: The American Farm Tractor. MBI Publishing Company, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7603-1370-1 , p. 134. Limited preview in Google Book Search
- ^ The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search. In: google.com. July 7, 1928, accessed December 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Kimes (1985), p. 608.