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Yanmar Tractor History

The Yanmar was founded in Japan in 1912. The firm has a long history with small diesel engines. The agricultural equipment division of the company was started in 1961. Yanmar entered into an arragement with John Deere and began building several utility tractor models in the early 1980s for Deere. Yanmar continues to be an engine suppiler for Deere's utility tractors. "Grey-market" imported Yanmar tractors are popular in North America for their low cost and quality.

Zetor Tractor History

Zetor was founded in the town of Brno, in the Czech Republic. The town has had a metal works since at least the mid-1800s. During World War II, the factory was pressed into service to produce munitions for Germany, until it was destroyed by bombing in 1944. The factory staff had begun making plans for production after the war, and the model 25 tractor was the result. Zetor was an early developer in four-cylinder diesel engines, diesel injection, factory-built cabs, and mechanical front-wheel drive (MFWD). Because of this, and their low cost, Zetor tractors were exported through the world. Zetor also licensed production to factories in India and Iraq in the 1950s and 60s.

Valtra Tractor History

Valmet (Valtion Metallitehdas - state metal factory) was born out of a Finnish World War II munitions factory. In 1949, engineers has produced a prototype 12 horsepower tractor. By 1951, this tractor was in production as the Valmet 15. In 1979, Valmet partnered with Volvo and produced tractors under the Volvo BM Valmet brand. Valmet bought out Volvo in 1985, and entered into an agreement with Massey-Ferguson to produce tractors at Massey's factory in France. Valmet had been a government-owned company until 1993, when it incorporated with Sisu under the name Valtra.

Steyr Tractor History

Armaments manufacturer Steyr (located in Steyr, Austria) began producing motorized vehicles, on a limited scale, by the 1920s. After World War II, mass production of tractors began. The firm was purchased by CaseIH in 1996 and is now part of CNH Global.

SAME Tractor History

Societa Anonima Motori Endotermici (SAME) was founded in the 1920s by Francesco Cassani. Cassani was an early tractor pioneer in Italy, being one of the first to use diesel engines and four-wheel drive in farm equipment. SAME has continuted to grow and expand, acquiring Lamborghini tractors in 1972, Hurlimann in 1977, and Deutz-Fahr in 1995.

Renault Tractor History

Renault first began building automobiles in 1898 and had been experimenting with tractors by 1910. During World War One, Renault built a light tank for the French Army, and its first production tractor was based on this design. Tractors became a priority after World War Two, in part due to orders from the government to rebuild the farm economy. Renault Agriculture was acquired by Claas in 2004, when the Renault name was dropped.

New Holland Tractor History

New Holland started with a corn mill in Pennsylvania built in 1895. The company expanded into farm implments and found success with automatic hay balers. The firm was acquired by Ford in 1985, and the Ford-New Holland name began to appear on tractors. In 1990, Ford sold a majority interest in its farm machinery operations to FIAT, with the agreement that the Ford name be dropped in ten years. Many tractors began to be released under two names, New Holland in traditional Ford markets, and FIAT in their traditional markets. In 1999, CaseIH and FIAT/New Holland merged to form CNH Global, which continutes to built tractors under the New Holland brand.

McCormick Intl Tractor History

The McCormick name in farm machinery dates back to Cyrus McCormick, who produced the first successful reaper in 1831. McCormick's company was one of the pieces that eventually became International Harvester. McCormick Tractors International produces tractors at the former IH factory in Doncaster, England. The Doncaster factory had been purchased by International Harvester in 1939, and began producing tractors in 1949. The factory continuted to produce tractors for Case-International after IH was acquired in 1985. When Case and New Holland merged 1999, regulators required that the new Case-New Holland corporation sell the Doncaster plant. The ARGO group purchased the factory, and formed McCormick Tractors International to operate it, bringing the McCormick name back to tractors.

Mahindra Tractor History

Mahindra is a major manufacturing corporation in India, involved in metals, automobiles, and farm machinery. In 1963, Mahindra joined with International Harvester to form the International Tractor Company of India (ITCI) and was producing a version of the B275 by 1965. The partnership with International ended in 1971, and ITCI merged back with Mahindra as the tractor division. The "Mahindra" brand name was first used on tractors in 1982. In 1994, Mahindra USA was formed to export tractors to the United States.

Lanz Tractor History

The Lanz factory in Mannheim, Germany, built steam engines and motor cultivators before producting the famous Lanz Bulldog in 1921. Nearly one-quarter million of these simple tractors were built over the next thirty years. Lanz was purchased by John Deere in 1956. By 1958, the Bulldog was being produced in John Deere green and the Deere name appeared alongside Lanz. By the late 1960s, the Lanz name disappeared completely, although the Mannheim factory is still in operation.

Landini Tractor History

Landini was born out of Giovanni Landini's machine shop. Landini had been building farm machinery since 1884, and had been building steam and internal-combustion engines prior to World War One. Landini's sons carried on the business, building their first tractor in 1925 using a hot-bulb diesel engine. Their tractors became very popular, and Landini was the leading Italian tractor manufacturer prior to World War Two. Landini resumed production after the war, but the primitive diesels were no longer popular. Landini survived by licensing Perkins engines in the 1950s, and was acquired by Massey-Ferguson in 1959. Argo SpA acquired Landini in 1994.

Lamborghini Tractor History

Ferruccio Lamborghini started building tractors in Italy in the late 1940s. Initially, the tractors were built using a mixture of surplus military hardware from World War Two. By 1954, Lamborghini was building its own engines. Also, the company had expanded manufacturing into other areas, notably, high performance sports cars. In the late 1960s Ferrucio became disinterested in tractors, and the firm was formally acquired by SAME in 1971. The Lamborghini name is still used on tractors today, as part of the SAME Deutz-Fahr Group.

Kubota Tractor History

Established in 1890, the Kubota Corporation has a long history of manufacturing agricultural machinery in Japan. With an excellent line of compact tractors, necessary on smaller Japanese farms, Kubota entered the North American market in 1969. In 1974, Kubota introduced a 12 HP four-wheel drive tractor in the US. Prior to that point, US manufacturers did not use four-wheel drive except in the largest models.

The popularity and low price of Kubota tractors led to a number of "grey market" imports of Japanese models into North America. These models lack safety equipment required in the US such as PTO shields and seatbelts. Kubota won a lawsuit in 1997 to make it illegal to distribute these tractors.

Kioti Tractor History

Kioti is the trade name for Daedong tractors in North America. Daedong was founded in 1947, producing its first tractor in South Korea in 1968. In 1993, Daedong expanded into the US market with Daedong-USA, and the Kioti tractor brand.

John Deere Tractor History

Deere & Company was founded in 1868 by blacksmith John Deere. Deere had achieved great success in 1837 when he built a plow from highly polished steel. Deere & Company entered the tractor manufacturing business in 1918. Deere sold a small number of tractors designed by Joseph Dain, with limited success. That same year, Deere purchased the Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company, that built the Waterloo Boy tractor. In late 1923, John Deere introduced the Model D, which remained in production for the next 30 years. Deere became a dominant force in tractor production with the 4020 in 1963

Iseki Tractor History

A Japanese farm machinery company that was founded in 1926, Iseki exports tractors worldwide. Many Iseki tractors are sold under the Bolens brand name in the United States.

International Harvester Tractor History

The International Harvester Company was formed by the merger of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the Deering Harvester Company in 1902. The company had a number of early tractor models. The Farmall, in 1924, sparked a revolution in tractor design. The Farmall introduced the tricycle style row-crop tractor. It could not only plow, but was capable of precision work such as cultivating. International Harvester's agricultural operations were merged with the J. I. Case Company in 1985. Equipment is stil manufactured under the Case IH name.

IMT Tractor History

Industriya Masina I.Traktoru. IMT made a number of licenses Massey Ferguson designs in the Beograd, Serbia factory.

Hurlimann Tractor History

The Swiss manufacturer Hurlimann was an early pioneer of direct-injection diesel. In 1975, Hurlimann was acquired by SAME. The brand continutes today, although the tractors are nearly identical to their SAME and Lamborghini counterparts.

Ford Tractor History

Henry Ford had grown up on a farm, and had taken a personal interest in providing an affordable tractor to the small farmer. He built his first experimental tractor in 1907 and was said to have made more than 50 different prototypes until the development of the Fordson F in 1917. The Fordson name was selected for two reasons. There was already a Ford Tractor Company in Minneapolis at the time, and the Ford Motor Company shareholders did not approve of tractor production. So Henry established an entirely new firm, Ford & Son Inc., which was shortened to Fordson.

Ford stopped tractor production in the US in 1928, choosing to focus on the Model A car that was replacing the Model T. Fordson production, however, continued in England. In 1938, Henry Ford and Harry Ferguson made an agreement for Ford to build tractors with the Ferguson three-point hitch system, and the Ford 9N was developed. The Fordson name was continued to be used in England until 1961, when the two branches of the company were consolidated.

Ford purchased New-Holland in 1985, but was soon looking for a way out of the tractor business. In 1991, Ford-New Holland was sold to FIAT. The deal required that FIAT stop using the Ford name on tractors in 2000.

Fiat Tractor History

FIAT was founded in 1899 as an automobile manufacturing company. Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili Torino (FIAT) began developing tractors by 1910, but was delayed by World War I. The first FIAT farm tractor, the 702, was being produced by 1919. With the acquisition of Ford-New Holland, FIAT dropped the FIAT and Fiatagri brands.

Massey Ferguson Tractor History

Harry Ferguson started in the tractor business selling Waterloo Boy tractors (renamed Overtime) in Ireland and England during World War I. While working with farmers to maximize the use of their new tractors, Ferguson began working on a better system to attach implements. His "Ferguson System", later known as the three-point hitch, would become the standard for attaching implements to farm tractors.

To demonstrate his new hitch, Ferguson built the Ferguson Black tractor. This led to an agreement with David Brown to build the Ferguson-Brown. The arrangement was short lived, and Ferguson made a new deal with Henry Ford to develop tractors using his hitch. The deal with Ford lasted until 1947, when it ended with a bitter lawsuit. Following this, Ferguson entered into an arrangement with the Standard Motor Company to produce his own line of tractors. Ferguson was taken over by Massey-Harris in 1953. The Massey-Ferguson brand is still used today by AGCO.

Fendt Tractor History

Fendt was born out of the Fendt family blacksmith shop in Marktoberdorf, Bayern, Germany. Hermann Fendt built the first "dieselross" (diesel horse) in his father's shop using a stationary engine and an old mower in 1928. The Fendt Dieselross became a popular tractor and the company grew in the 1930s and 40s to become a major brand. Fendt's innovation, particularly with its Vario transmission and Xylon chassis, carried the company forward. In 1997, Fendt became a part of AGCO.

Farmtrac Tractor History

The Farmtrac brand was created by the Escort Group of India for their tractors. Prior to the use of the Farmtrac brand, Escorts built tractors for Ford. In 1998, Escorts purchased Long Agribusiness in the United States and used it to import the Farmtrac line. Farmtrac North America entered bankruptcy in 2008 and was purchased by Montana Tractors.

Farmall Tractor History

In 1924, International Harvester introduced a new row-crop tractor named the "Farmall". Its pioneering tricycle configuration would dominate US farms for the next 30 years. IHC used the Farmall brand for all their tractors with a row-crop front axle until the 1970s. At that point, the name was phased out before finally disappearing completely in 1975. CNH Global has revived the Farmall brand on some of their modern utility tractors.

Erkunt Tractor History

Located in Ankara, Turkey, the Erkunt factory began production in 1954.

Deutz Tractor History

Deutz can trace its history to the Nikolaus Otto, Gottleib Daimler, and the first internal combustion engines. Agricultural machinery production began in 1907. Deutz tractors were very popular in western Europe after World War II. Farmers liked the simple, rugged air-cooled diesel engines. In 1969, Deutz mergered with Fahr, a farm implement manufacturer. The company was purchased by SAME in 1995.