[AT] McCormick Tractor

[Guy Fay]

Louis is right.

International Harvester brand naming is something that just confuses the 
heck out of people today. There wasn't one set of rules that carried 
over time- what name a tractor received depended on when it was built.

IH used the "McCormick-Deering" name on all farm tractors starting in 
1923. The Farmall was officially the McCormick-Deering Farmall, although 
people seldom called it that.

Somewhere in here tractors sold to industrial markets started receiving 
the International name.

In 1949, the Deering was removed, and tractors became McCormicks.

In 1954, the Non-Farmalls started using the International name.

Louis Spiegelberg wrote:

>I might be off base, I am not much of an IH guy, but I will take a stab at
>this.  I think McCormick tractors are the standard model tractors that were
>built by IH.  Such as the W4, O4,etc...  I think the 4 series used the
>Farmall H powertrain. The Farmall name was used on row crop tractors.  I
>don't know if this helps you, but this is about my extent of knowledge of IH
>history.
>
>Lou  
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>[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Richard Strobel
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>Howdy all;
>  Did Cyrus build a McCormick tractor?  Been told there's no mention of 
>Deering anywhere?  From a distance it appears red and is on rubber.
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>  How would you rate it on the "Desirable Scale" of 1 to 10 for an ole iron 
>collector?
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>Thanks much
>RickinMt.
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