Massey Ferguson
Massey Ferguson is an international manufacturer of agricultural machinery and equipment in Duluth, Georgia. The product range includes tractors, combine harvesters, balers, tillage equipment and lawn tractors.
History
Prehistory
The roots of Massey -Ferguson go back to the year 1847. At the time, Daniel Massey founded in Newcastle, Ontario, the Massey Manufacturing Company. In 1891, the Massey Manufacturing Company merged with the founded by Alanson Harris Company A. Harris and Son Implement to Massey -Harris Company Limited.
Harry Ferguson invented the three-point hydraulic shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. He cooperated initially with David Brown, then with Henry Ford As a result of patent litigation with Ford Motor Company, he parted However in 1947 by Ford and worked together from now on with Sir John Black's Standard Motor Company, its petrol engines from 1948 and diesel engines from 1951 in Ferguson tractors were built ( before there were engines by Continental motors Company was ).
Fusion
In 1953, the Canadian Massey -Harris Company merged with the British Harry Ferguson Limited. Toronto became the headquarters of the new company. After the merger the Massey -Harris tractor factory of was closed in Racine and relocated production in the Ferguson Park plant in Detroit. The new company was initially the name Massey -Harris -Ferguson but was eventually renamed Massey Ferguson Company 1958. In the same year was first logo, consisting of the three triangles are used. With the use of the new emblem on the tractor and the color was changed to red and silver. 1954 Harry Ferguson left the company to build with Ferguson Research racing cars.
Expansion
From ITM / IMT in Serbia license are manufactured since 1955 tractors. In the same year the Australian company HV was McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd acquired, which was written in 1930 from the agricultural machinery company of Hugh Victor McKay and the Australian subsidiary of Massey- Harris.
The 1958 presented MF 65 was the first tractor Massey Ferguson, who used a Perkins engine.
Since Massey Ferguson tractors had only the lower and middle performance range on offer, but in Canada and the United States more powerful tractors were also asked, in 1958, the MF was 97 put on the market, which was based on the GBD of Minneapolis- Moline. In 1959, with the MF 98, which was based on the Super 99GM the Oliver Corporation, another model in this power range.
In April 1959, the new company took over the engine manufacturer Perkins Engines. In August of the year you took the tractor production the standard Motor Company, which had made since 1946 Ferguson tractors under license, with the Banner Lane factory in Coventry and work in Staint -Denis, in the standard in a joint venture with Hotchkiss et Cie also used to produce tractors.
1959 Landini has acquired 100 % of Massey Ferguson. Landini built from the early seventies for Massey Ferguson tractors which externally only differed in the paint to the Landini tractors.
1960, a new plant in Beauvais, France was opened.
Since 1961 ( Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited ) are manufactured in India by Massey Ferguson tractors under license at TAFE, which are also sold under the brand Massey Ferguson. In the same year, a license agreement was signed with the Turkish company Uzel and 1962 was the first tractor off the assembly line there.
1962 Massey Ferguson presented with the multi power transmission, the first powershift before. Also in 1962 began in Brantford with the construction of a new assembly hall for combine harvesters, which could begin production in 1964.
In 1966, the activities were consolidated in the area of Construction under the name Industrial and Construction Machinery ( MF ICM). Also this year, we acquired a 32% share of the Ebro, in 1968 thus began to manufacture tractors under license. On September 21, 1966, the new 16 -storey office tower was opened on the site in Banner Lane.
In 1969, Massey Ferguson before a line of snowmobiles under the brand name Ski Whiz.
In 1970 Massey Ferguson tractor with the German peasant Eicher with a share of 30 % a. In the same year they took over from Koehring whose wheel loader series. In 1972, the combine harvester plant in Eschwege was closed. 1973 Eicher has been completely taken over. From now on tractors were manufactured by Eicher, largely based on models from Massey Ferguson. As Massey Ferguson came in economic difficulties in the 1980s, participation in Eicher was sold in 1982 at Eicher Good Earth.
In 1974, the German machinery manufacturer Hanomag was taken, but this was in 1980 sold back to the IBH - Holding. Also In 1974, the Polish tractor manufacturer Ursus SA a licensing agreement with Massey Ferguson, being able to produce their tractors in Poland are allowed.
Since 1976, Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company (ITM ) are produced in Iran Models of Massey Ferguson under license.
In 1977, with the Japanese company Toyosha, reached an agreement that these diesel-powered compact tractors provide for Massey Ferguson.
1978 Massey Ferguson got into economic difficulties, this one met by selling the green area maintenance at Snapper Inc. and the plant in Kilmarnock, in the previously Massey- Harris had produced closed and the local combine harvester production was in the works in Marquette lez -Lille shifted. Likewise, the office furniture daughter Sunar was sold to the American man Hauser Inc.. Began in 1978 with the production of large tractors of series 4000 at the plant in Brantford.
1979, the shares of the Spanish Ebro were sold to Nissan.
In 1983, the last two plants in the U.S., one in Detroit and one in Wayne, closed.
In 1984, Massey Ferguson Vickers its subsidiary Rolls Royce Diesel International, which was incorporated into Perkins.
From 1984 tractors were of Iochpe - Maxion, who had taken over the Brazilian branch of Massey Ferguson in the same year, manufactured under license and under the brand name Massey Ferguson for the Brazilian market. This cooperation has continued to 1996, when AGCO took over the area for agricultural machinery of Iochpe - Maxion.
1985 took over to the area for combine harvesters of the insolvent competitors White Farm Equipment.
As part of Varity
1986, the U.S. automobile supplier Dayton Walther was bought and the same year the company was renamed in Varity, the range of agricultural machinery kept the name Massey Ferguson. Also in Australia in 1986, the plant in Sunshine was closed. By means of a management buy -out of the area for construction equipment ( Industrial) in 1992 spun off as Fermec.
1988, the area Massey Combines was insolvent, which had been founded in 1985 and consisted of the ailing Combine division. This led to the closure of the combine harvester in Brantford on March 4, 1988.
In 1989, the automotive Varity Kelsey - Hayes of Fruehauf Corporation.
In 1992, Massey Ferguson before the Dynashift transmission. In the same year the Australian sales activities have been combined with those of the Japanese tractor manufacturer Iseki in a joint venture with the name Massey Ferguson Iseki Australia.
1992 agreed with Varity AGCO that they assume the future distribution of products of the brand Massey Ferguson North America.
In 1994, ARGO majority shares of Landini. ARGO and AGCO still share different models.
As a brand of AGCO
1994 sold the Varity of agricultural equipment, without the engine business Perkins, the American AGCO Corporation.
Together with Renault Agriculture was founded in 1994 and based in Beauvais, in which both companies were involved with 50 % joint venture GIMA ( Groupement Industriel de machinisme Agricole ). The aim of this joint venture was the research, development and production of transmissions, hydraulics, electronics and power lifts for tractors.
In 2002, the factory at Banner Lane in Coventry was closed, had been manufactured in the 1946 tractors.
2003 was introduced with the 7400 Dyna- VT continuously variable transmission, which is based on the Vario transmission of sister brand Fendt. This transmission is now used in other series Massey Ferguson.
2008, the two new combine series Centora and Fortia were presented.
2010 Massey Ferguson announced that all future models will be equipped with an output of more than 100 HP with engines of AGCO Sisu Power. The models MF5465, MF5475, MF6465, MF6475, MF6480, MF7465, MF7475 and MF7480 were converted by a Perkins - a AGCO Sisu engine.
Successful models
Among the most successful tractor manufacturer ( Ferguson / Massey Ferguson ) were the models:
- Ferguson TE 20 ( TEA20, TEF and others)
- FE 35 / MF 35 and MF 65
- Ferguson '70 system with the standard models: MF 130, MF 135, MF 165 and MF 175 which received several facelifts over the years.
- MF 200 / MF 260 / MF 500 series which is today still often made in the world as under license.
Current product range
In addition to combines, swather, balers, hay tools, sprayers, rakes and tillage equipment the following tractor series are made:
Tractor
- MF 1500 from 19.5 to 46 hp
Special and municipal tractors
- MF 3600 VSF 69-102 hp
- MF 6400 Panoramic 100-157 hp
- MF 7400 Panoramic 135-167 hp
Tractors in the medium performance range
- MF 3600 69 - 102 hp
- MF 5400 75 - 135 hp
- MF 5600 85 - 130 hp
- MF 6400 100 - 230 hp
Large tractors
- MF 7600 140 - 280 hp
- MF 8600 270 - 370 hp
Features Modern MF tractor
The current models of Massey Ferguson, among others, have a continuously variable transmission. So you can reach the appropriate speed at low speed for each job. This means that the tractor delivers higher performance and less fuel consumed.