There were new models in the works but White had no money to put them into production as they could not afford to upgrade the factory tooling to do it. Like you said all the money was being dumped into trucks but the bottom line was the new tractors could go no further than a testing phase. IIRC it cost Deere tens of millions to upgrade the factory for the New Generation tractors it no doubt would have cost White that much. The IVT transmission needed new tooling among other features on the new Olivers. I fault management for not taking that into consideration and not having a bridge ready until the new products could go into production. The MM plant would have meant building a large cubic inch displacement motor in house and gain efficiencies on production lines that no doubt were not running to capacity by 1970. Oliver was weak in terms of the increasingly important 100-150 HP segment of the market. I've heard different stories as to why the 310 was expanded in the 55 series but the most likely management did for cost savings even if it made for an inferior tractor. My understanding was the dealers and block men were pushing for larger engines for the 1855 and 1955 tractors. Deere had the 404 for the 4020,4320,4520, and 4620 tractors and IH had the 407 for the 856,1256 and 1456.
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