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Posted by Dr.EVIL on October 31, 2003 at 09:26:38 from (12.4.181.2):
In Reply to: sharing IH dealer experience posted by Terry on October 31, 2003 at 08:08:52:
All the Ag. equip. companies in the Moline/Rock Island, IL. area worked "Seasonally" back in the late 50's & 60's. Farmers would go down to the shops & build the equipment during the slow winter months, then farm during the spring, summer & fall. I grew up 20 miles from Moline during this time. Didn't make a difference what color the equipment was either, red, green, Sunset Yellow & Orange (Case). I'm not denying IH didn't have problems. I worked at FARMALL in many capacitys for 5 yrs in the late 70's & early 80's. Deere had problems also, as did Allis, Case, and all the rest. IH had Hydro-static drives, Axial Flow Combines, Cyclo Planters, several different types of automatic reset trip-type plow bottoms, MANY other highly engineered products for the ag industry. Their problem was their Marketing Dept. kept dreaming up too many new products for their engineers to develope and release before all the bugs could be worked out. I also think they chased WAY too many small niche markets where volume was tremendously low for the profit potential possible. If IH hadn't been so sucessful at building almost 400,000 H's and almost 300,000 M's, plus all the little Louisville tractors they would not have had the profits to spend on developing all that oddball equipment, and would have left those markets to the Short-line manufacturers. They tried too hard to try to keep up with CAT, Massey Ferguson, Allis-Chalmers, Oliver, Minneapolis-Moline, Case, and forgot about Deere, The Great Imitator. They lost sight of what their real goal was, to take care of the euipment needs of the American Farmer.
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