A History Of New Holland Tractors For Farm Use
June 21st, 2010 | 
Author: New Holland tractors are produced by a company that had its beginning in 1895 by Abram Zimmerman when he bought a small barn only large enough for one horse on the outer limits of New Holland, Pennsylvania. From his humble black smith shop, his company grew and by way of several mergers the company is now a worldwide leader in the production of farm equipment and tractors.
In Zimmerman’s early work to provide gasoline engines with blocks that would not crack during sub-freezing weather. Once he created this engine, it was used in many ways on farms that operated where electricity was not available. Zimmerman’s farm engine allowed washing machines, saws, rock crushers and butter churns to be powered without electricity.
The depression of the 1930s was a difficult time for New Holland. The farmers that had been their customers did not have the money for such luxury items and sales dropped. The financial outlook for the company became very bleak until the development of the first automatic hay baler that also tied the bales of hay. Some historians say that this development alone saved the company from extinction.
The Sperry electronics company purchased the company in 1947. The name was changed to Sperry New Holland. The growth of the company allowed them to obtain a large portion of a Belgium combine company.
New Holland produced lawn equipment until 1974. At that time the lawn equipment portion of the company was sold off to Ariens. Ford motor company, with their rich history of producing tractors purchased the New Holland line at about the same time. There was little overlap in the Ford products and the New Holland ones, so the merger was accomplished using complementing products with little duplication of products. Ford sold the New Holland portion of the company to Fiat later.
Through the various mergers and changes, the company also acquired a construction equipment division. The North American division of the construction equipment company was later sold, but in other places in the world, New Holland continues to produce this equipment and to be a leader in the production.
the company produces a wide variety of farm equipment in North America today. One of the main products in that line is tractors, but they also continue to produce haying equipment, crop production tools and implements for handling of materials.
While many New Holland tractors are very large and designed for use in large fields, the company also has a line of smaller tractors that may be perfect for the smaller scale farmer or rancher.
Today, the corporation is one of the leading farm machinery manufacturers in the world. While it ranks third in the United States, in Europe, parts of Latin America and Asia it is the leading supplier of this machinery. Today, Fiat New Holland is truly a world company.
The beginning of New Holland tractors was in a humble shop of a blacksmith in a converted one horse barn on the outskirts of New Holland, Pennsylvania during the late 1800s. As Mr. Zimmerman worked on that freeze free hit and miss gasoline engine, he may have never dreamed that the little company would be a world wide corporation only one hundred years later.
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