Great work Alan. I thought MF boasted that they were the first to have computers in their tractors with the late 2000 and more famously 3000 series. Seems like IH were well ahead of their time. Even the 3000 series cab has similar characteristics to the case IH cab which was outstanding at the time.
Cyrus Hall McCormick’s ancestors came from Co. Tyrone. He was I think 3rd generation US. If you add in Harry Ferguson and Henry Fords contribution you end up with a lot of Irish genetics tractors!! Looking forward to the world wide series, had a 674 at one stage, she was a great tractor.
Superb video Mate and I really look forward to the "World Series" one with the Doncaster and earlier Bradford tractors Dave North Lincolnshire England🙂
Very interesting Alan,in early 1960,s I can remember a farmer near us having a Farmall cub reg no AI 828.........I can still see him mowing a meadow with a mid- mounted mower,few years later he upgraded to a Fergie 20.His last tractor was a 35X which is still going..
Hi Alan, nice to see the background of such a massive company. Looking forward to the european section especially. Thanks for al your work, must have taken long time to sort out all the mergers/takeovers/buyouts. Well done. Thanks again,see you next week. From UK.
International was a big deal here in Australia. They had a foundry and factory in Geelong near Melbourne where they built tractors,trucks and most types of farm machinery including PTO and Self Propelled Headers (combines to some). All their products had a prefix that told where it came from, GL was Geelong, A was Australia, B was British, no prefix was the US. I don’t know how they identified other plants. Our farm had a GL132 combine (seeder to foreigners) 16 run, a B45 baler which wasn’t much of a baler and an AWD7 tractor which was a good machine. A 511 24 run combine took over the seeding duties in later years. We also had an International TPL back blade which was made by the Page slasher company. All the tractors up to about 120 HP were made entirely in the Geelong factory, the bigger ones were imported. All the engines were designed cast and built here in the earlier days and were identified by the A prefix, the AGD truck motor is an example (Australian Gold Diamond). The AWD7 tractor had an AD264 indirect injection diesel motor which went well when you could start it. It used to blow perfect smoke rings when it first fired on a cold start. The 345 and 392 cu in truck motors were cast and built there as was the Neuss 310 apparently. The Truck manufacturing plant was very successful, trucks being entirely engineered and built there from the 50s. The best known was the ACCO which was a big seller from the early 60s. They also built Atkinson trucks for the big end of town which sold well and became eventually dressed up big ACCOs. We also saw imported Transtars and Loadstars. Just as a side note ACCO stands for Australian “C Line” Cab Over. All our design and build. They were every where. Iveco took over the truck plant and I think ACCOs are still built as rigid compactors and agitator trucks. Acco has been a success story for nearly 60 years. A great loss indeed when they went belly up. Jeff
We also had two Acco tippers and a conventional cab C series Inter truck in our fleet of five farm trucks and I never considered ours as an International farm.
Interesting history, like US, UK, France, Germany n Australia had their own versions. For Australia it had A before similar number to US tractors, same goes with headers or you guys call combines. Fortunately for i have the chance drive nearly all Australian versions of IH models, we still have WD6, A554, 786 n UK version 574 unfortunately i would like have Snoopy, 5488, 3600. As for headers my neighbour PTO A8, tractors Turbo 1066, B250?, MX135 blow that whistle, Steiger 9370. After Gleaner L2 burnt down he went with 2188 with 36ft front then redtop 8010 with 40ft front which we end up buying after he past away. Both neighbour n our family had very popular AA160 truck to cart grain/fertiliser/hay around.
The A554 became the A564 which had the same motor as the AWD6, AWD7 and the A554. The highly regarded AD264. They put the DPA rotary pump on the A564 which would have transformed it. I have only seen one of those. They revved the A554 up a bit to get a little bit more power and the poor old back end couldn’t cope if they were used as farming tractors, which most of them were. The 574 was a totally different British tractor. The header would have been an A84 or A86.
@@jefftheaussie2225 Yes n unfortunately crank was weakest piont on A554. As for header cant remember second digit, as brought copy of spare parts book but not right model but neighbour Gordon said would still come handy.
@@JimmyShields-z2h They didn’t break cranks as far as I know, the motor was very tough, but the diff was the weak point, it was designed for the petrol predecessors. The A554 had a bad reputation as a result and the A564 was in the same boat apart from being about 10 years out of date.
