ALLIS-CHALMERS
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American machinery maker whose orange tractors and silver combines became a fixture of farms for most of the twentieth century.
- Formed
- 1901, by merger
- Reorganised
- 1912 as Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
- Product lines
- Farm, construction and power equipment
- Successors
- Allis-Chalmers Energy and AGCO
The first Allis-Chalmers Company was created in 1901 from the Edward P. Allis Company, Fraser & Chalmers, the Gates Iron Works and part of the Dickson Manufacturing Company. It grew by acquiring and consolidating smaller firms, and for some seventy years its machinery filled mills, mines and factories around the world.
Consumers knew the brand mostly through the farm equipment business, with its orange tractors and silver combine harvesters. A series of divestitures in the 1980s and 1990s transformed the firm and in the end dissolved it.
- 1901First Allis-Chalmers Company formed by amalgamation
- 1912Reorganised as Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
- 1980sDivestitures begin
- 1990sThe firm is dissolved; AGCO and Allis-Chalmers Energy continue
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ALLIS-CHALMERS Allis-Chalmers D series: from the D14 to the 103 hp D21
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ALLIS-CHALMERS Allis-Chalmers Model B: the tractor for four million small farms
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ALLIS-CHALMERS Allis-Chalmers Model G: the implement carrier with the engine at the back
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ALLIS-CHALMERS Allis-Chalmers Model C and CA: the two-row answer to the Model B
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ALLIS-CHALMERS Allis-Chalmers Model WC: the tractor that put rubber tyres on farms