The McCormick C95 is one of the tractors of the C series sold under the McCormick name. The C series was among the assets the Italian ARGO group acquired from Case IH in 2000, together with the Doncaster works and the rights to the CX and MX-C models, when the McCormick brand was brought back to the market.
McCormick C95 at a glance
| Brand | McCormick |
|---|---|
| Series | C |
| Rights acquired | 2000, from Case IH |
| Assets bought with it | Doncaster plant, C, CX and MX-C models, MX Maxxum licence |
| Original maker of the series | Case IH, Doncaster, England |
| Production after 2007 | Fabbrico, Italy |
| Brand owner | ARGO Tractors S.p.A., Italy |
| Model designation | C95 |
No Wikipedia article describes the C95 itself, and the brand article gives no specifications for it. This page is based on the article about McCormick Tractors and covers the brand and the C series rather than the model in detail.
History of the McCormick C95
The McCormick name goes back to Cyrus McCormick’s reaper works of 1847 and to International Harvester, formed in 1902 from the merger of the McCormick and Deering companies. International Harvester sold its farm equipment division to Tenneco’s Case Corporation in 1985 and the tractors became Case IH; the McCormick brand itself was dropped at that point.
The C series was one of the Case IH lines built at Doncaster, the English plant that had made tractors for International Harvester and then Case IH. When Case and New Holland proposed their merger into CNH Global in 1999, the European Union required the sale of the Doncaster works as a condition. ARGO bought the plant and the brand rights to McCormick in 2000, and with them the rights to the C, CX and MX-C models and a licence for the MX Maxxum. McCormick Tractors International Limited started trading in January 2001.
In 2001 ARGO also bought the Saint-Dizier factory in France from CNH Global, which became the base of McCormick France, and in December of that year McCormick International USA was set up near Vermeer in Pella, Iowa. In December 2006 ARGO announced the closure of Doncaster, with the loss of about 325 jobs, and in 2007 all McCormick tractor production moved to Fabbrico in Italy, the former Landini plant. The last tractor built at Doncaster, on 14 December 2007, was an XTX series machine.
Since 2007 Landini, McCormick and Valpadana have been brands of ARGO Tractors rather than separate manufacturers, and their tractors are built as a common line in Italy. The group kept investing in its European sales network, with subsidiaries in Spain in 2017, France in 2019 and Poland in 2021, and in Germany and Austria the brand sold 210 tractors in 2022 and 253 in 2023.
Design and features
- C series: one of the three model lines bought from Case IH in 2000.
- Doncaster heritage: the series came from the plant that had built International Harvester and Case IH tractors.
- McCormick brand: sold under the name revived by ARGO in 2000 after Case IH had dropped it.
- Italian production: built at Fabbrico after the Doncaster plant closed in 2007.
McCormick C95 versions
- C series: the line the C95 belongs to, acquired from Case IH in 2000.
- CX and MX-C: the other two model lines bought from Case IH at the same time, with a licence for the MX Maxxum.
- McCormick International USA: the American sales company set up in December 2001.
- Later McCormick ranges: the X6.4, X7.6 and X8.680 tractors sold after production moved to Italy.
The company behind the C95 is described on the page for McCormick International, and the last Doncaster series, the XTX, on the page for the McCormick XTX 200. More machines are in the McCormick collection.
Video: Günyurdu Köyü Keli Mevkiinde McCormick C95 Max ile Köten 2
Video by ZAFER DURAN KÖSE on YouTube.
Sources
- McCormick Tractors, English Wikipedia: ARGO purchase, C series, Doncaster closure
- McCormick Tractors International, German Wikipedia: brand history, later ranges, sales in Germany and Austria
- McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, German Wikipedia: brand origins and revival in 2000
