We had 100s of machinery lines when horses got pastured in favor of tractors and implements.
Over time cycles of the ecconomy has whittled that down with consolidations and bankruptcies.
Generally if there was a good time, there was also a nearby bad time!
The 70s were pretty good. Oliver, Ford/NH, Allis Chalmers, JD, IHC, and Case were all in town.
Today we have not a one. Oliver left in the 70s, Case and Allis folded in the early 80s, IHC left a few years later, NH slowed down to a parts place, then lost that a decade ago became a Kubota dealer, lost that, and now fixes a few tractors.
JD merged up with 3, then 5, then 20 dealerships and was downsized into I think 12 dealerships, none local any more in the past decade.
I would guess the 70s, early 70s, was the sweet spot. 2008-2015 probably was pretty good as well. After WWII was also likely pretty good, as mentioned.
I'm not sure we will have the same relationship going forward with dealers as we did in the past. They are all conforming to 20-100 dealership mega stores that don't offer much service. It's different than it used to be.
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