By 1930, the 100,000th Farmall was produced. In 1926, IH's Farmall Works built a new plant in Rock Island, Illinois. Advertisement for the 1940 International Tanker Truck Sustained success 1939 advertisement for the International "Jungle Yacht" tractor-trailer, for Attilio Gatti's luxury scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo International Harvester was one of the main clients of Product Miniature Company. In 1919, IH bought the Parlin and Orendorff factory in Canton, Illinois, a leader in plow manufacturing, renaming it Canton Works. Perkins, one of the Morgan executives about whom Cyrus McCormick described as the "most brilliant negotiator he had ever known." The new company was valued at $150 million. The architect of the merger was George W. In 1902, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company, along with three smaller agricultural equipment firms (Milwaukee Harvesting Machine Co., Plano Manufacturing Co., and Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner-manufacturers of Champion brand) merged to create the International Harvester Company. McCormick died in 1884 and his company passed to his son, Cyrus McCormick, Jr., whose antipathy and incompetence toward organized labor sparked the Haymarket affair, the origin of May Day as a labor holiday.ġ900 ad for McCormick farm machines-your boy can operate them He developed a vast support network to demonstrate field operations. Their products came onto the market just as the development of railroads offered wide distribution to distant territories. The reaper sold well, partially as a result of savvy and innovative business practices. McCormick, he moved to Chicago in 1847 to be closer to the Midwestern grain fields and founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. The roots of International Harvester run to the 1830s, when Virginia inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick perfected his version of a horse-drawn reaper, which he field-demonstrated in 1831 and for which he received a patent in 1834. History Founding Cyrus Hall McCormick patented an early mechanical reaper. In 2020 Volkswagen agreed to fully purchase the remaining shares of Navistar. Throughout its existence International Harvester was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. International became solely a truck and engine manufacturer and reorganized as Navistar International in 1986. The European division exists today as McCormick Tractors and is owned by ARGO SpA of Italy. In November 1984 IH finalized a deal with Tenneco to sell the farm equipment division to Tenneco's subsidiary Case Corporation, and the brand continues as Case IH which is owned by CNH. The International Harvester legacy non-profits host some of the largest agriculture related events in the United States.įollowing years of financial and economic decline, International began selling its separate equipment divisions, starting with the sale of the construction division to Dresser Industries in 1982. Given its monumental importance to the building of rural communities the brand continues to have a massive cult following. International 660 in rural Saskatchewan A 1954 IH Farmall Super C In the 1980s all divisions were sold off except for International Trucks, which changed its parent company name to Navistar International (NYSE: NAV). Along with the Farmall and Cub Cadet tractors, International was also known for the Scout and Travelall vehicle nameplates. Its brands included McCormick, Deering, and later McCormick-Deering, as well as International. It was formed from the 1902 merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company and three smaller manufacturers: Milwaukee Plano and Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner (manufacturers of Champion brand). The International Harvester Company (often abbreviated by IHC, IH, or simply International) was an American manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment, automobiles, commercial trucks, lawn and garden products, household equipment, and more.
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