Harry Merritt, the general manager of the Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division, decided there was a large market for a row-crop tractor that could replace the horses being used on small farms. The popular ...
Allis-Chalmers introduced its WD tractor in mid-1948 as the replacement for the WC model. Although the WD retained the 4-cylinder, 201-cubic-inch Allis-Chalmers gasoline engine, design improvements ...
Like many others, I am watching the Ken Burns documentary on World War II. The third episode shows a U.S. secret weapon without noting its importance. A photograph of a farm near Luverne, Minn., ...
BLOOMINGDALE — One Jefferson County Joint Vocational School student is proving that everything old is new again by putting ...
Forget barn finds and car wrecks that have been sitting in the desert for decades. This twin-engine Allis Chalmers Model B tractor comes straight from old tractor heaven. Don, the owner, said this ...
As a seven-year-old boy growing up on a farm near Renfrew, Ont., George Nesbitt would read his father's farming magazines admiring the pictures of the tractors advertised inside. One day, unbeknownst ...
The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (later Fiat-Allis and Fiatallis) made heavy construction equipment from 1928 until 1985 at a 70-acre plant between Sixth and 11th streets and Stanford Avenue and ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In its search to develop electric ...
Urban Spelunking Urban spelunking: Former Allis-Chalmers / Summit Place These days, there are about 2,500 people working each weekday at Summit Place office complex in West Allis. If today the site is ...