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 ...

Dr. C.T. Frerichs of Beatrice holds a photograph he made in 1950 of his fiancée, Julia Meadows, sitting on his father’s late 1940s-model Allis-Chalmers tractor on the Frerichs farm near Coleridge, ...

The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (later Fiat-Allis and Fiatallis) made heavy construction equipment from 1928 until 1985 at a 70-acre plant between Sixth and 11th streets and Stanford Avenue and ...

Members of the family of Dr. C.T. Frerichs of Beatrice gather around the 1945 Allis Chalmers Model C tractor put on permanent display Monday at Homestead National Monument of America. Frerichs, sixth ...

Publicity spectaculars featuring tractors are unusual, but they have been used to give an extra boost to new developments that prove difficult to sell. An example is the introduction of low-pressure ...

At Blue Fox Farm, the tractor is old but the fuel is new. Like a small but growing number of organic farmers around the country, Chris Jagger has converted an old Allis-Chalmers Model G tractor built ...