Case Corporation
The Case Corporation was a existing since 1842 manufacturer of agricultural and construction machinery, which in 1999 merged into the Group, CNH Global, inter alia, Case IH Agricultural equipment and Case CE leads for Construction since.
History
In 1842, Jerome Increase Case founded ( 1819-1891 ) his company JI Case Threshing Machine Company in Racine ( Wisconsin). Case sold around the turn of the century more than tractors and threshers was called "King of the threshing machines ".
In 1895, his first gasoline-powered tractor Case ago.
1910 took over the Pierce Case Motor Company and introduced a year later his first gasoline -powered automobile manufactures. 1919 was taken over by plowing with the Grand Detour Plow Company, a manufacturer. 1927 Case provides the automotive industry ( Case Jay -Eye -See Cars) again.
1928 saw the purchase of Massey -Harris, the naming rights to the roles of these JI Case Plow Works. In the same year they bought the areas of agricultural machinery from Emerson- Brantingham.
1937 took over case with the rock Iceland Plow Company a farm equipment and former tractor manufacturers. With the American Tractor Corporation took over in 1957 to a manufacturer of construction machinery.
In 1967, the Kern County Land Company, the majority owner of Case, acquired by Tenneco. In 1968, the two areas of agricultural machinery and construction machinery were separated. 1969 increased its share of Tenneco Case to 91%, a year later case, a 100 % subsidiary of Tenneco.
1972 David Brown took over, the brand name disappears on tractors but already in 1983. 1985, the agricultural machinery division of International Harvester was acquired and it formed with its own agricultural machinery division Case IH. 1986, the manufacturer was acquired by United Tractors Steiger.
1995 Case IH merged with the tractor division of Steyr. In 1996, one backhoe loader manufacturer Fermec.
After Case was taken over by Fiat in 1999, Fiat formed from Case and is also owned by Fiat New Holland Companies consolidated Case New Holland, CNH Global shortly.
Trip to the automotive
After the JI Case Threshing Machine Company, the Pierce Motor Company in Racine, maker of the Pierce - Racine - automobile. Was published in 1911 the first car under the name Case. The car that was to have five different structures and 4-7 seats, was a 30 -bhp four-cylinder engine (22 kW) driven, which was based mainly on the outgoing model. 1918, the first six-cylinder car with a Continental engine was offered and the automotive interests of the Company were consolidated under the Case Motor Car Division. From this time there were only six-cylinder cars that were sold in 1925 under the name of Jay -Eye -See ( according to the English pronunciation of the initials of the founder JIC ). The car earned a reputation for reliability, which resembled that of the tractors. 1927 was one of the automotive industry, because you no longer saw himself able to stand up to the larger competitors. From this point on Case concentrated again on the construction of agricultural and construction machinery.