Kirsch: Your take on this is interesting, however I can't agree with it. Deere may have kept the 2 cylinder engine but the 60, 70, 620, 720, 630 and 730 were quite modern tractors for their time.
That is not the main reason I say this. IH was manufacturing a factory 3 point hitch on the Super BMD as early as 1953. That same hitch design could quite easily been designed for SH, SM, SMTA, 300, 400, etc. The French were putting a 3 point hitch on the French manufactured Super C. Don't try and tell me IH in North America couldn't have tooled up for the same.
On IPTO, Cockshutt and Oliver had it a full 8 years before IH with the SMTA in 1954.
As of 1955 International Harvester was a very wealthy company, very broad range of products, with nowhere to go but UP or DOWN. My point is, they were in a better position to do R&D on just about anything 30% of their customers were asking for. No other company building farm equipment at that time had as much capital behind them.
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