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Re: IH's demise. . . McCardell's strike
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on April 07, 2004 at 04:14:49 from (216.208.58.108):
In Reply to: IH's demise. . . McCardell's strike posted by Mike on April 06, 2004 at 22:45:50:
Mike: I doubt it, by 1979-80 they had been out of touch with their customers for 25 years. In the 1950s customers left IH in droves over the fast hitch issue. I can count 8 out of 10 neighbors, former C, H and M customers switching because of not wanting to be forced into where they traded over mounted implements. Clearly Harry Ferguson had won the hitch war before IH sold their very first fast hitch on a Super C in 1952. For 10 years they flogged fast hitch. Then came the 560 transmission- rear end problems. Fooling with glow plugs. 56 series tractors did redeem them a bit. Then Cavitation of wet sleeves in 66 series tractors. Every manufacturer had the problem, IH chose to do nothing about it. 886 with the 358 German diesel was the final straw in my area. Dairy farmers had bought 766 and early 886 with the American 360 diesel for use on forage harvesters. What a disappointment to the farmer who went to see his neighbors 360 cutting silage then buying a later 886. After that one that area went as green as they get, hasn't even been a CaseIH dealer there for close to 10 years now. John Deere dealer shipped all those 886s to upstate NY.
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