White Farm Equipment
The company White Farm Equipment was a subsidiary of White Motor Company .
history
After the White Motor Corporation had taken over various agricultural machinery manufacturers in the 1960s, for example the Oliver Corporation in 1960 and Cockshutt in 1962 and Minneapolis-Moline in 1963 , these activities were merged in 1969 under the name White Farm Equipment. From 1975 with the introduction of the Field Boss series (tractors) and the Harvest Boss series, the original colors of the three companies and their brand names were no longer used, but white was used as the brand name and gray as the color. From the beginning some models came from Fiatagri , this represented a continuation of a corresponding cooperation between Oliver and Cockshutt with Fiatagri. After this cooperation had ended in 1977, models in the power range up to 60 hp were obtained from Iseki in Japan and sold since 1978 under the brand name White-Iseki . In 1979 White Farm Equipment was sold to TIC. After White Farm Equipment filed for bankruptcy in 1985, the Brantford, Ontario plant was closed and the combine business was sold to Massey Ferguson , and the rest of the business was taken over by Allied Products . Allied Products, which had acquired New Idea in 1984 , merged the two companies to form White-New Idea in 1987 , and the company's headquarters were relocated to Coldwater, Ohio . In 1989 the tractors from Iseki in the lower power range were replaced by their own models made in the USA. This American series was available in Cockshutt-Red, Oliver-Green, Minneapolis-Moline-Yellow and White-Silver and had engines from CDC (a joint venture between Case and Cummins). This series was not very successful and was discontinued in 1991. In 1990 the previous Field Boss series was replaced by the Workhorse series. After an agreement was reached with Deutz-Allis in 1988, their 9100 series was manufactured by White from 1989. This series was based on the tractors from White, but was equipped with engines from Deutz AG . In 1991 White-New Idea's tractor division was sold to AGCO , and the rest of the company two years later. AGCO used the brand name White until 2001 when it was superseded by the brand name AGCO.
Web links
- White tractors by model. Accessed December 31, 2014 . In:tractordata.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yAxZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SEYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=7042%2C3096633
- ^ The Montreal Gazette, July 11, 1985
- ↑ Matt O'Connor: Allied To Buy Most White Farm assets. In: chicagotribune.com. September 13, 1985, accessed December 31, 2014 .
- ^ Allied Buys 3rd Strapped Farm Equipment Firm. In: latimes.com. November 17, 1985, accessed December 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Ralph W. Sanders: Vintage Farm Tractors. Voyageur Press, ISBN 9781610605649 , p. 166. Limited preview in Google Book Search
- ^ The Modesto Bee, February 12, 1989
- ↑ The Milwaukee Sentinel, March 2, 1988
- ↑ George Gunset: Allied Products Plans To Sell Farm-equipment Subsidiary. In: chicagotribune.com. November 9, 1993, accessed December 31, 2014 .