I think the main issue was dealer network. There was not a dealer around me anywhere close. There where Five IH and four JD dealers in that same area. There where only two Ford dealers here as well and the tractors owned reflected that dealership level.
It also could have been the fact that Massey Harris was a Canadian Company. Where the JD ,IH and AC where mid-west companies. Remember travel, shipping and communications where nothing like today. So I think that limited the dealership network to the Northern states and areas.
I know MH had a full line of equipment and where world wide but I think it was widely spread too. Meaning there where areas that had lots of MH equipment and areas that had none.
The MH tractor line was pretty good but had some thing that did not work well with the other brands of equipment. The biggest was the PTO location was much higher from the drawbar than most of the other manufactures. It made the MH tractor not work well on some implements.
I think that the merger with Ferguson killed off the MH tractor line. They used some of MH ideas but mostly Ferguson's. The implement line carried through.
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