I ask myself a lot of these questions too, Allis was a very innovative company,and if one looks at what they were doing in the 70's and 80's up to the very end,most people would agree... I think though there were a lot of things that helped bring them down,the company was a major player in every industry they were involved in,and almost every one of those branches of the Allis tree had a lot of really big ticket $$$ machines that in the 1980's people were having a hard time buying with 20% interest...
On the farm side in the 70's the 7000 series tractors were good sellers,then you had the 7080,had to be a lot of warrantee $$$ on those engines, along with 7580's,and later the N6 combines, these products brought to light the aging bullet proof 426 of the 60's had met its limit...
The Gleaner combine line was a huge $$ maker for the company,with an almost spotless reputation,but I think marketing won out in the company and rushed the N6 to market way to early to try compete with IH's Axial-flow,with a new "rotary" design,the early N series combines cost them a lot of market share in a very key big ticket item market.. just some of my takes on it,killing the hayline in 1975 I always thought was suicidal too,considering a lot of AC's bread and butter markets...
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