Posted by troyr on December 20, 2007 at 13:13:18 from (75.165.18.223):
In Reply to: popularity? posted by Larry59 on December 20, 2007 at 09:03:15:
MF Poor said: (quoted from post at 13:09:57 12/20/07) Where is this poll from? It sounds like an opinion poll from an all Allis Chalmers forum. I'm not knocking Allis Chalmers, but they're no where near #1 at any point in their history, nor since they ceased to exist as an independent company.
From all I've ever been told and have read, the FORDSON N had the single highest production #'s as an individual model. "Letter series" FarmAlls were the #1 seller as a brand during their run. The N series Fords sold in huge numbers as a model "series" . The 135 Massey sold in high numbers during its run, beingthe #1 seller worldwide during the mid 60's. 4020 Deere's sold in mass during it's time period, being #1 in US sales during that time. As the years went along, the "most popular tractor of it's day" sold in ever decreasing numbers as the number of farmers decreased.
Allis Chalmers, according to everything I can find, never achieved sales numbers higher than 3rd over-all at any point, and that was a relatively short run during the mid 50's. Their market share in the tractor field was nowhere near the levels of IH or Deere even at AC's high water mark.
I've read where AC (Gleaner) was ahead of IH and Deere in COMBINE sales at one juncture, but at that time, Massey Ferguson had ALL of them covered (early/mid 60's)
I'd like to see this "poll" we're talking about and see who's done the voting!
It was a poll on this very same forum on the home page it said something like what tractors were on your farm when you were growing up?.
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