Re: What Failed?????

Posted by CNKS on August 03, 2004 at 11:39:03 from (207.178.99.150):

In Reply to: Re: What Failed????? posted by Hugh MacKay on August 02, 2004 at 20:24:15:

I will agree that IH held onto fast hitch too long, and that it was part of the problem, but actually part of a bigger problem, in that they were simply too slow to meet the competition, fast hitch or not. JD first outsold IH in 1958, (BEFORE the new generation), IH was never #1 again. I was 20 years old when the 460/560 were first produced -- that's about the time I left the farm so I had no experience with them. I remember my dad saying that his dealer told him the tractors just had too much power, causing drive train problems. At the time I thought it was a whole new tractor, it was except it had the H/M (ok, 350/450 rear end) and was released over the objection of the engineers. It's not just the number of farmers affected -- it damaged IH's reputation to the point they could never recover.

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