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About the McCormick-International Harvester Collection Collection | Wisconsin Historical Society
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About the McCormick-International Harvester Collection Collection | Wisconsin Historical Society
The McCormick-International Harvester Collection contains documents, publications, photographs and films related to Cyrus Hall McCormick and the International Harvester Company. The collection includes more than 12 million pages or items dating from 1753 to 1985. These items document the history of the agricultural equipment industry, the McCormick family and many other topics in fields as diverse as the history of advertising, technology, labor, business, rural life, philanthropy, architecture, Virginia and Chicago.
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Over 30,000 original documents and publications about the history of Cyrus Hall McCormick and the International Harvester Company are available online.
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Whatever Happened to McCormick-Deering?
McCormick-Deering farm implements and Farmall tractors helped IHC become the giant of the industry. Its 1923 U.S. farm equipment sales of $150 million tripled those of second place Deere & Co. “Harvester is, of course, the greatest single agricultural enterprise in the world,” trumpeted Fortune magazine at the time.
However, even a corporate giant such as IHC wasn’t immune to the calamity of the Great Depression. By 1932, its U.S. sales fell 78 percent, and the price of its stock dropped to $10.37 from a 1929 peak of $142 per share. Tens of thousands of Harvester employees were laid off and remained so through most of the lean 1930s.
The McCormick family had, starting as early as 1862, crushed several attempts at unionization by their own workers. In the late 1930s, though, the unions started organizing among Harvester’s workforce of 60,000. IHC management fought bitterly, but by 1945, most every worker was a union member.
After VJ Day, Harvester started a round of diversification and acquisition that cos
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McCormick-Deering W series tractors
General-purpose crop tractor
| McCormick-Deering W-9 | |
|---|---|
McCormick-Deering W-D 9 | |
| Type | General-use agricultural tractor |
| Manufacturer | International Harvester |
| Production | 1940-1953 |
| Propulsion | Rear wheels |
| Engine model | International Harvester C335 (gasoline) |
| Gross power | 44 horsepower (33 kW) |
| PTO power | 49.40 horsepower (36.84 kW) (belt) |
| Drawbar power | 44.15 horsepower (32.92 kW) |
| Drawbar pull | 4,365 pounds (1,980 kg) |
| Speed | 16.3 miles per hour (26.2 km/h) forward, 3.1 miles per hour (5.0 km/h) reverse |
| NTTL test | 369 |
| Succeeded by | International Harvester 660 |
The McCormick-Deering W series tractors were a range of standard-tread farming and industrial tractors produced by International Harvester that were derived from the Farmallletter series row-crop tractors of the 1940s and 1950s. Branded by International Harvester as McCormick-Deering products, with the same styling and red paint as the Farmall line, the W series had fixed wheel widths, lower height and wide front axl
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