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 ...

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 ...

KIMBALL, Minn. — Five years ago Dave Frank of Kimball was ready to restore the Allis Chalmers WD that he had purchased at auction, until his father, Melvin, issued a challenge. "He told me ’Do ...

Edward P. Allis was born in rural New York in 1824. Unlike many other Americans, he was able to attend both grammar and high school, which allowed him entrance into Geneva College (now known as Hobart ...

Farmers are loyal to their preferred brand of tractor and in 1955, James F. Haymaker switched allegiances to Allis-Chalmers. He forked over $2,000 for a brand new WD45, which made lap after lap across ...

His maternal grandfather used Allis Chalmers tractors, too, and that farm still does to this day, Hagerbaumer said. This weekend, a Hagerbaumer family Allis Chalmers tractor will be the Featured ...

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 ...

As many of you have correctly pointed out, New Holland’s fuel cell tractor (shown at last week’s Paris show) isn’t the first one. Allis Chalmers began experimenting with a fuel cell tractor in 1959.

Photo provided by Wally Kandel Kathy Schalitz gives the thumbs up in the Allis Chalmers she drove to establish a new land speed record for tractors on June 2 in Blytheville, Ark. MARIETTA — A Marietta ...

With a weight of 70 tons and boasting 524 horsepower, the HD-41 crawler tractor made headlines as the largest built up to that time. Allis-Chalmers gave at-tendees a taste of things to come at the ...

Publicity spectaculars featuring tractors are unusual, but they have been used to give an extra boost to new developments that prove difficult to sell. An example is the introduction of low-pressure ...