Massey-Harris
Massey-Harris was a Canadian agricultural machinery company that merged with Harry Ferguson Limited in 1953 to form Massey Ferguson .
history
1891 merged Massey Manufacturing Company of Hart Massey with A. Harris and Son Implement to Massey-Harris. In 1892 they took over WH Verity & Sons , a manufacturer of plows. Hart Massey was the first president of the new company until his death in 1896. He was succeeded by his son Walter Edward Hart Massey .
In 1895 Massey-Harris began making bicycles.
After the death of Walter Edward Hart Massey in 1901, his brother Chester Massey became the company's new president until he resigned in 1903 for health reasons. He was succeeded by Lyman Melvin Jones , who held this position until 1917.
In 1910 the engine manufacturer Deyo-Macey from Binghampton, New York, was bought, whose production was relocated to a new plant in Weston (Ontario) in 1916 . Also in 1910 the Johnston Harvester Co. from Batavia, New York was bought.
From 1917 the product range was expanded to include tractors , which were obtained from the Parrett Tractor Company of Chicago Heights (Illinois), until this company was sold in 1919. From 1919 these tractors were manufactured in the company's own factory in Weston, until production there was discontinued in 1923 because these models were no longer competitive. It was not until 1927 that Massey-Harris tractors were available again.
Vincent Massey was President of the Company from 1921 to 1925.
In 1925 a company was acquired in Marquette-lez-Lille in France, in whose factory from then on harvesting machines from Massey-Harris were manufactured.
From 1927 tractors were offered again, this time from JI Case Plow Works (brand name: Wallis ) from Racine. In the same year a factory was acquired in Cologne-Westhoven , in which combine harvesters were produced from 1929. In 1928 JI Case Plow Works was finally bought and the brand name was sold to Case Corporation .
1930, ended the Australian subsidiaries of HV McKay Pty Ltd in a joint venture under the name of HV McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd together. In the same year, the GP (stands for general purpose ) was presented, the first tractor developed from scratch that was no longer based on the Wallis tractors. This four-wheel drive tractor with its four wheels of equal size was equipped with a Hercules engine.
In 1938 the first self-propelled combine harvester, the model No. 20 , from North American production.
During the Second World War , Massey-Harris produced military equipment, such as the M24 . In 1942, Nash-Kelvinator bought a factory in Racine to manufacture tanks and aircraft parts. Even after the end of the war, military equipment was still manufactured at Massey-Harris, such as the M44 self-propelled howitzer between 1950 and 1952.
In 1941, James S. Duncan, who had previously been General Manager since 1936, became the new President.
In 1942 this was based on No. 20 combine harvester model No. 21 presented. However, due to the scarcity of resources caused by the war, this combine harvester could not be produced in large numbers. Joe Tucker, the sales manager of Massey-Harris for the USA, was able to convince the War Production Board of his plan for a Harvest Brigade . This plan called for the War Production Board to provide the material for 500 vehicles and for Massey-Harris to sell 500 model No. 21 combines in the US market. Buyers should then be required to thresh at least 2,000 acres with these combines. With these combine harvesters, the harvest in the USA and Canada could then be brought in in 1944 and 1945. This model was honored in a 1995 stamp series entitled Historic Land Vehicles .
In 1946 a new factory in Tratford Park , Manchester began producing harvesters. In the same year, a new plant in Toronto began producing combine harvesters.
In 1949, a hydraulic system called Drapth-o-Matic was introduced, which was available as an option for the Model 22. A year later, this system was also optionally available for the 30 and 44 models.
From 1951, the model 22 was also offered its own three-point power lift (Hitch-All), which was not compatible with that of Harry Ferguson and was technically inferior to it.
Since the Harvest Brigade's success in the 1944 crop, combine harvester manufacturing has been Massey-Harris' main business. The company was a market leader in self-propelled combine harvesters in the 1950s and had a 51% share of the US market in 1951. In 1952, the production of combine harvesters began on a former military site in Eschwege , Germany.
It was James S. Duncan who was instrumental in the merger with Harry Ferguson Limited in 1953 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2BoyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YKgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=984%2C3360411
- ^ Mira Wilkins: The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 . Harvard University Press, 2004 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ The Milwaukee Journal, February 12, 1942
- ↑ _http: //www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,775100,00.html
- ↑ Chester Peterson: American Farm Tractors in the 1960s . Voyageur Press, 2004 ( full text in Google Book Search).