Red: I get a kick out of those guys who wrote books on this matter. Of the 2 or 3 books I've seen they all start with 560 rear end being the beginning of the end. Far as I'm concerned it happened before the 560. IH only built about 65,000 560s. Right in my area several customers had more than one of them, thus we might assume it affected 60,000 customers.
Harry Ferguson won the hitch war, before IH sold their first fast hitch. I go back to my friend who opened a new MF dealership in 1954. Starting with no customer base, MH had not had a dealer in our area since before the war. Ferguson never had a dealer in that area. 10 years later in 1964, my friend claimed IH fast hitch was the best friend he had. He had made up his customer base, taking half the IH dealer's customers. They never went back.
In our area even before fast hitch IH were loosing customers to Cockshutt and Oliver over IPTO.
Those two items alone, 3 point hitch and IPTO, affected several hundred thousand customers across North America. 20 times the customers affected by 560 rear ends.
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