Old Tractor
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Old Tractor
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
I love finding these old gems as “lawn art” in rural areas of the Midwest! I discovered this antique McCormick-Deering tractor along the Wisconsin portion of the Lake Superior Scenic Byway in Bayfield, Wisconsin.
McCormick-Deering was never a “company” itself, but the trademark name of a line of tractors and farm machinery manufactured by the International Harvester Co. In 1902, the five largest companies: The McCormick, Deering and Milwaukee Harvester companies, Piano Mfg. Co., and Warder, Bushnell & Glessner (Champion harvesters) merged to become the mighty International Harvester Co. For many years after the merger, IHC sold two parallel lines of equipment. In 1912, the US government filed an antitrust action against IHC but it wasn’t until 1918, that it was finally decreed that IHC could not sell their product under two different names. Finally in 1923 a new grain binder – one combining the best features of each of the older machines – was introduced and called the McCormick-Deering. All of IHC’s other farm implements soon followed suit, and the famous McCormick-Deering line was born.
Copyright 2018 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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October 29th, 2018
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