[AT] Oliver's decline
Cecil Bearden
crbearden at copper.net
Wed Nov 13 08:51:02 PST 2019
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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