Case Corporation

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Case Corporation
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

JI Case Threshing Machine Company preferred stock dated August 29, 1911
Case 921C wheel loader
Case 9033 excavator

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

Case from 1922

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
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
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

Commons : Case Corporation  - Collection of Images
Wikibooks: Tractor Lexicon: Case  - learning and teaching materials

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

  1. Randy Leffingwell: The American Farm Tractor. MBI Publishing Company, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7603-1370-1 , p. 134. Limited preview in Google Book Search
  2. ^ The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search. In: google.com. July 7, 1928, accessed December 30, 2014 .
  3. Kimes (1985), p. 608.