The New Holland W series is a line of wheel loaders from the construction side of the company — the machines that scoop, carry and tip material on building sites, quarries and yards. The sources used for this page describe the company and its construction business, not the individual W models.
New Holland W series at a glance
| Maker | New Holland, construction equipment division |
|---|---|
| Type | wheel loaders |
| Job | scooping, carrying and tipping material on sites and in yards |
| 1998 purchase | Orenstein & Koppel, the German construction equipment maker |
| O&K in North America | sold to Terex |
| Group | CNH Industrial, after the 1999 Case merger |
| Company founded | 1895, New Holland, Pennsylvania |
| Farm business | tractors, combines, balers, sprayers and harvesters |
| Technical data | not given in the sources used here |
| Film | the old video for this record is not about the W series |
The sources describe the company and its construction business, not the W loaders; no model data is given because none is in them, and the old video is unrelated.
History of the New Holland W series
Loaders beyond the farm
Wheel loaders are among the most common machines on any site: an articulated chassis, a big bucket on two arms and a driver who fills a truck in three passes. New Holland sells them as part of its construction equipment line, alongside excavators and motor graders, and the W numbers are the model codes of that family. They share the brand with the farm tractors but not the factory, the dealer network or, in most cases, the customer.
How the company got into earthmoving
The construction side grew by purchase. In 1998 New Holland bought Orenstein & Koppel, the German construction equipment manufacturer, and passed O&K’s North American operations to Terex. The timing was deliberate: the company was being reshaped at the same moment, with Fiat owning it since 1991, the single New Holland brand launched in 1996 and the merger with Case completed in 1999 to form CNH, now CNH Industrial.
What is written down, and what is not
The sources used here record the company’s business, its purchases and its plants, but they do not describe the W loaders model by model: there is no entry for payload, engine or production years, and this page does not invent them. The old video attached to the record is not about the W series either, so it has been left off. What the sources do establish is that New Holland, a farm machinery maker from Pennsylvania, became a seller of earthmoving equipment as well.
Design and features
- Wheel loaders: articulated bucket machines for sites, quarries and yards.
- Construction division: part of New Holland’s earthmoving business, not its farm range.
- O&K purchase: the 1998 deal that expanded the construction side.
- Separate market: sold to contractors rather than to farmers.
New Holland W series versions
- New Holland W series: the loader line described here in general terms.
- New Holland excavators: the crawler machines of the same division.
- New Holland graders: the RG line, covered on its own page.
The other construction lines are on the New Holland D series and New Holland RG pages. More machines are in the New Holland section.
Sources
- New Holland Agriculture, English Wikipedia: Orenstein & Koppel, company history
- New Holland, Dutch Wikipedia: O&K deal, shared engineering
