The New Holland D series is a set of numbers from the earthmoving side of the company rather than from its farm tractors. New Holland has sold construction machinery since the 1990s, and that business grew sharply with the purchase of Orenstein & Koppel in 1998. The sources used for this page describe the company and its construction arm, not the individual D models.
New Holland D series at a glance
| Maker | New Holland, construction equipment division |
|---|---|
| Business | earthmoving rather than agricultural machinery |
| 1998 purchase | Orenstein & Koppel, the German construction equipment maker |
| O&K in North America | sold on to Terex |
| Group | CNH Industrial, after the 1999 Case merger |
| Farm side | tractors, combines, balers, forage harvesters, sprayers |
| Construction side | excavators, graders and loaders sold alongside the farm range |
| Company founded | 1895, New Holland, Pennsylvania |
| Technical data | not given in the sources used here |
| Example | the D models themselves are not documented in the sources used here |
The sources describe the company and its construction business, not the D models; no technical data is given because none is in them.
History of the New Holland D series
A farm company that also digs
New Holland is a full-line agricultural machinery maker: tractors, combine harvesters, balers, forage harvesters, self-propelled sprayers, haying tools, seeding equipment and grape harvesters all come from its factories. But the company has also sold construction equipment for decades, and that side of the business became much larger in 1998, when New Holland bought Orenstein & Koppel, the German earthmoving manufacturer. O&K’s North American operations were passed on to Terex as part of the deal.
Numbers instead of names
Where the farm range uses series letters and model numbers tied to engine power, the construction range uses its own number codes, and the D models belong among them. The sources used here do not set out which machine each D number describes, its weight, its engine or its years of production; this page therefore does not invent a specification, and it does not claim a type for the series that the sources cannot support.
The group today
After the 1999 merger with Case, the whole business became CNH, later CNH Industrial, with headquarters in Turin and New Holland, Pennsylvania, as the North American base. New Holland and Case still sell tractors and excavators under their own names, and the machines differ less than the badges suggest: a recent New Holland tractor series is built in the Steyr factory, and the mechanical parts of New Holland, Case and Steyr tractors are nearly identical, with the cab and trim developed separately.
Design and features
- Construction line: part of New Holland’s earthmoving range, not its farm tractors.
- O&K purchase: the 1998 deal that made New Holland a serious construction equipment maker.
- Shared engineering: group machines that differ mainly in cab and trim.
- Number codes: a model numbering separate from the tractor ranges.
New Holland D series versions
- New Holland D series: the earthmoving models described here in general terms.
- New Holland excavators: the crawler machines sold under the same brand.
- New Holland graders: the RG line, covered on its own page.
The motor graders of the construction range are on the New Holland RG page, and the farm tractors on the New Holland T series page. More machines are in the New Holland section.
Sources
- New Holland Agriculture, English Wikipedia: product range, Orenstein & Koppel purchase
- New Holland, Dutch Wikipedia: O&K purchase, shared engineering with Case and Steyr
