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Texasmark1

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Just finished reading all the replies to the thread concerning sounds you remember as a kid sort of thing.

A good many of the replies were Case tractor oriented. You see a few around here and a lot of them are the older round sheet metal front machines. Nearest Case/IH dealer is 40 miles distant and only one in the area.

Just where did Mr J.I. go wrong?

Mark
 
Can you explain that more to the uninformed? I thought he was that got Case to stop screwing around with the cross motors and start development on the more modern L and C. I know he worked for JD before going to Case and he almost single handily kept JD in the tractor business by arguing in favor of production of the D when most the board wanted to cancel the project and stay out of the tractor business in the early 20s.
 
Case turned a corner when Clausen left , Yes , he was a stubborn Dane that kept good ideas from the factory ...floor ,, the mid 60 s with the tenecco purchase was the begining of corporate communism ..the devourin of david brown in 72 was akin to a round hole and a square peg sort of thing...history proves time and again ,, bigger is not better ... then in the early 80s , the parent company executives behavior reached a new high of drunken case power, when they sideswiped with the bedroom eyes of ihc, a wild drunken brawl ensued ,a new company child with a head on both ends was consummated and birthed that ,required a shotgun wedding,, trouble was with 2 heads on either end ,this child could not find could not find its own rearend ,, and has been takin turns walking on either end ever since ... now fellas ,, how is that for a choice of words ?
 
The problem was,they forgot to put the front wheels on the SC and DC and had to add them later. lol
 
In 1929-30, Case came out with the most modern, best tractor of the time with the L and C/CC. Other than a few upgrades and some sheetmetal, the tractors stayed the same until 1954 - 25 years! The competition didn't change much either until the early 50s, but they started with tractors that came out in the mid to late 30s, so were 5-10 years more advanced than the Case 20 of those 25 years.
 
poor management, an independent company reviewed the company and their findings were that Case continuously gained market penetration with a product and never followed through in future developement, they had a good reputation with steam engines, threshers, combines like the A6, the C/L tractors ect. and let it all blow away in the wind, Case had almost 100% of the baler market before NH came out with a twine tie baler and Case lost the market overnight, they made the dc way too long, if the 400 had come out in 46 they would have went places, then there was the strike of 46 which cost them alot of good dealers and the list goes on and on, lots and lots of mistakes
 
Looking from the outside it looked to me like Case was short of R&D money. You already mentioned the DCs. Their early self propelled combines IMO were sort of a joke. All they did was throw a seat and steering wheel on their pull type combine and on the wrong side to boot. The SP 12 looks like a farmer hacked job thrown together out behind his shed. And then the Case 500. Yes it was probably the most advanced tractor in its power class but it was also just a LA with the diesel. So why couldn't that been out 3-5 years before it was? That had to have been tough selling an LA against diesel tractors on the wheat plains. JD on the other hand just because of their 2 cylinder philosophy had to create their diesel the R from the ground up. I bet they spend more money in 1 or 2 years on that project then Case did on the 500 total.
 
OOOOkaye! I guess, what I know of it anyway, the same could be said for IH. Story around here was they had their idea of what the farmer wanted, needed, and built it. On the other hand JD was out in the field finding out and responding. Rest is history.

Thanks
 
I dunno ,, just came to me,,.had a good lookin young english teacher that wore short skirts,..never pid attention to what she was sayin ,, but watched HER every move ...LOL,
 
(quoted from post at 15:31:04 12/27/13) I dunno ,, just came to me,,.had a good lookin young english teacher that wore short skirts,..never pid attention to what she was sayin ,, but watched HER every move ...LOL,
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Same here, short skirts and big rack... hard to concentrate on the subject when that is prancing around in front of a 16 yr. old boy. She only lasted a year and went back to work in radio (but had a TV body!)
 
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