With a weight of 70 tons and boasting 524 horsepower, the HD-41 crawler tractor made headlines as the largest built up to that time. Allis-Chalmers gave at-tendees a taste of things to come at the ...

Allis-Chalmers' first Springfield plant was bought ... which was descended from a company that had manufactured crawler tractors in Watertown, Wisconsin, since 1913, had opened in 1925.

Remember when finding vintage tractors wasn’t as easy as a quick online search? In the 1990s and earlier, the hunt required ...

Harry Merritt, the general manager of the Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division, decided there was a large market for a row-crop tractor that could replace the horses being used on small farms.

One day, unbeknownst to his father, young George filled out a request for literature from Allis-Chalmers, a manufacturer of tractors, and mailed it away. A few weeks later, a salesman from Allis ...

Allis-Chalmers introduced its WD tractor in mid-1948 as the replacement for the WC model. Although the WD retained the 4-cylinder, 201-cubic-inch Allis-Chalmers gasoline engine, design ...

As a footnote, hydraulic backhoe attachments have also been offered for small to midsize crawler tractors and loaders. Most were set up like their rubber-tired counterparts, but one, the Tractomotive ...

About 570 union workers at the Allis-Chalmers Corp. plant in south suburban ... Allis said Wednesday it would close the Harvey plant and its tractor plant at West Allis, Wis., ...

The La Crosse Allis-Chalmers plant produced tractors and other agricultural implements, operating from 1929 to 1969. All the buildings in the foreground have since been razed, and the La Crosse ...

It wasn't until this week, however, that he took part in transporting the orangish-yellow 1972 Allis-Chalmers HD-41 to ... the bulldozer to a 40-wheeler tractor-trailer and then hauling the ...