Allis-Chalmers
Sign in to saveAllis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries. Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Allis-Chalmers
- Company.logo
- Allis-Chalmers logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 150
- Company.defunct
- 1999
- Company.successor
- AGCO, Allis-Chalmers Energy
- Company.foundation
- 1901, West Allis, Wisconsin
- Company.location
- U.S. based, global exports
- Company.industry
- Industrial machinery, grain-milling machinery, power plant equipment, mining equipment, agricultural machinery, heavy equipment (construction)
- Company.products
- Generators, engine-generators, tractors, threshers, combines, farm implements, bulldozers, milling machinery, others
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Encyclopedic overview
29 sectionsContents
- History
- Overview
- 1800s to 1901
- 1901–1911
- 1912-1919
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s and 1970s
- 1980s and 1990s
- Brand reuse, 2000 to present
- Former sites
- Agricultural machinery
- Tractor models
- Balers
- Combine Harvesters
- Industrial Construction Equipment
- Industrial and power house equipment
- Lawn and outdoor machinery
- All-terrain vehicles
- Fuel cell golf carts
- Military machinery
- Allis-Chalmers Energy
- See also
- References
- Cited sources
- Further reading
- External links
Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries. Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills.
The first Allis-Chalmers Company was formed in 1901 as an amalgamation of the Edward P. Allis Company (steam engines and mill equipment), Fraser & Chalmers (mining and ore milling equipment), the Gates Iron Works (rock and cement milling equipment), and the industrial business line of the Dickson Manufacturing Company (engines and compressors). It was reorganized in 1912 as the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company. During the next 70 years, its industrial machinery filled countless mills, mines, and factories around the world, and its brand gained fame among consumers mostly from its farm equipment business's orange tractors and silver combine harvesters.
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