Cockshutt
The company Cockshutt Farm Equipment was an agricultural machinery manufacturer from Canada.
history
In 1877, James G. Cockshutt founded a company in Brantford to manufacture agricultural equipment called Brantford Plow Works . In 1882 it was renamed the Cockshutt Plow Company .
At the beginning, as the name suggests, plows were manufactured, later other devices such as seed drills and other tillage equipment were added.
Since Cockshutt did not manufacture any tractors himself, tractors of the Allis-Chalmers brand began to be sold in 1929 . In 1935 the company switched to Oliver tractors .
After the outbreak of World War II , Cockshutt manufactured parts for military vehicles and aircraft. Because of the additional employees hired during the war, it was possible to start developing new machines such as tractors and self-propelled combine harvesters . In 1946, with the Cockshutt 30, the first self-developed tractor was presented. This range of tractors was later expanded to include the Cockshutt 20, 40 and 50 models. Engines from the Buda Engine Company were used , with the exception of the Cockshutt 20, whose engine came from Continental . After Buda was taken over by competitor Allis-Chalmers, Cockshutt purchased engines from Perkins , Hercules and Continental.
In 1958, a new series of tractors was introduced with the 500 series designed by Raymond Loewy . From 1960 diesel-powered tractors from Fiatagri were sold under its own label.
In 1962, Cockshutt was bought by the White Motor Company and incorporated into the Oliver Corporation, which White had acquired two years earlier. From that point on, tractors were only repainted by Oliver to Cockshutt until the Cockshutt brand was abandoned in 1972.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Cockshutt's Course , The Montreal Gazette, February 5, 1960