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. The popular ...

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 improvements ...

Allis-Chalmers DD grader of the 1950s. In the 1940s, Allis-Chalmers launched a new grader called the model 'D' to replace the former model 'W' tractor-mounted type at the lower end of its motor-grader ...

As a seven-year-old boy growing up on a farm near Renfrew, Ont., George Nesbitt would read his father's farming magazines admiring the pictures of the tractors advertised inside. One day, unbeknownst ...