And it wouldn't be the first time the media was wrong. Probably written by someone with a distaste of JD. If you research the topic you will find that the 2 cylinders and the Waterloo factory was JD's biggest money maker at that time. So much so that some of the upper management were hesitate to go from the 2 cylinders like Duke Rowland who was in charge of all tractor production. Charles Wiman president and the tractor engineers wanted to switch to over to multi cylinder engines but Duke and the marketing people wanted to stick with the 2 cylinders since both Waterloo and Dubuque were punching out 2 cylinders as fast as they could. Evidently a compromised was reached were as a feasibility study would start on a new series of multi cylinder tractors and while at the same time keeping the 2 cylinders updated. This occurred in the late 1940s. Then JD decided to start R&D on the New Generation in 1953. It also no coincidence that Duke Rowland by this time had been removed from the Waterloo planted and appointed manager of JD's new Chemical company. His replacement was Maurice Fraher who previously was the manager at the Dubuque factory were they had already been experiment with 4 cylinder engines. So he was no hesitant to change. Those are facts from J.R. Hobbs a well known author of JD articles who had access to the archives.
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