It would be interesting to do some research into patents and lawsuits to protect them back in that day to see how much New Idea comes up in the news of the time. You may well be onto something, New Idea may have had strong patents and may have been very aggressive in enforcing them and that may have slowed down the competition.
I can't think of anything that had a monopoly around here. Certainly, New Holland haying equipment was far more common than other brands, but you saw the occasional Deere setup especially when the once came out that punted the bale out the back into a rack.
Owatonna was the most common swather up here, but that came and went pretty rapidly and the decline in small grain and swathing in general put an end to that.
I think the new monopoly is in the "system" where everything in a given brand works together with all the computer controls. You can't really pick best of breed in new equipment anymore, you have to have integration. Obviously, service is a huge point now too, you can't have Brand X machines if you've got no service nearby no matter how good they may be.
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