[AT] Oliver's decline

[Cecil Bearden]

White has certainly been the kiss of death for anything it gets into..
Cecil

On 11/13/2019 10:13 AM, toma at risingnet.net wrote:
>
> The White Oliver alliance actually goes back a lot further. Rollin 
> White organized Cletrac Corp in 1916. White was formed about 1890 by 
> Rollin's father and had been making sewing machines and steam cars.
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> Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 07:08AM -08:00 from James Peck 
> jamesgpeck at hotmail.com <mailto:jamesgpeck at hotmail.com>:
>
>     The list of the truck brands taken over by White is also long. A
>     couple of them survive. About 69 or 70, I interviewed at Euclid,
>     the construction equipment manufacturer owned by White.
>
>     About 7 years back I was in email contact with Mr. Cockshutt who
>     worked for the same Toronto area headquartered multinational I
>     did. He blamed family members selling their Cockshutt stock to
>     outsiders.
>
>     Around 93, I was invited to apply at a VolvoWhiteGMC stamping
>     plant in Ohio as part of a last ditch effort to make it
>     competitive, but declined. It is closed now.
>
>     [Howard Pletcher] In 1960,
>     the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Motor_Company entered the
>     agriculture market with the purchase of
>     the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Farm_Equipment_Company.
>     In 1962, White acquired
>     the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockshutt_Farm_Equipment Company
>     of Canada. White increased its agricultural interests in 1963 with
>     the acquisition of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis-Moline.
>     In 1969, Oliver, Minneapolis-Moline and Cockshutt were merged to
>     form White Farm Equipment with headquarters
>     in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Brook,_Illinois; White Motor
>     Corporation's headquarters remained
>     in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland,_Ohio. Six years later,
>     Oliver, Minneapolis-Moline and Cockshutt were folded into the
>     White brand.
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