Posted by NY 986 on April 05, 2017 at 08:45:46 from (184.53.48.122):
Kind of wet here with not much chance of doing anything for a while. I looked at the IH dealers of the past website for NY. It got me thinking as to if there was a "Golden Age" to the machinery business when was it? I would have to guess from the early 1940's to the mid 1950's for around here. US farmers were contributing food to the war effort and then the Marshall Plan fed Europe for several years after WWII. I have to wonder after pumping H's and M's out by the dozen if it was not a let down for a dealer once the mid 1950's hit and you were selling maybe 4-6 400's per year down to 3-5 560's by 1960. It seems a lot of change happened in terms of dealer numbers shrinking during the late 1950's and early 1960's. Probably the greater shrink was around WWI and just after but with the automobile becoming wide spread there was not a need to have a dealer in every town. Incidentally, the IH list is incomplete but that is to be expected as they probably have no official list to work from. Just the memory of those who were around back in the day. Not that I live in their trade area but I did not see Addison Farm Supply or Ortner's. I just remember seeing all these names in American Agriculturalist and Hoard's Dairyman back in the 1970's.
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