Talk:International Harvester
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Case New Holland owns the International Harvester brand and the logo on this home page. Navistar is the newer name for International Truck & Engine Corporation and the logo is different. The rest of the stuff on this page may be a decent history of IH but it ends with Case New Holland acquiring IH, not Navistar.
Now Case is known as Case IH. http://www.caseih.com/about/about.aspx?contentid=137&RL=ENAN&navid= http://www.scottsupplyco.com/company.html http://www.toytractorshow.com/cnh1.htm 65.24.80.143 22:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] The name
While looking at the website listed, (nav-international.com) I saw that there was no mention that their name was Navistar International. The changes should be discussed. Onekopaka 05:36, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
International Harvester nearly went bankrupt during the agriculture downturn of the early 1980's. In 1985 Harvester sold many of its divisions including the construction division to Dresser Industries and the agriculture division to Tenneco, Inc. The only parts of Harvester left were the truck and engine divisions, and the company changed its name from International Harvester Company to Navistar International Corporation in 1986. The company now uses the "International" name on its products. The "International Harvester" name and "IH" logo is being used today by the "Case IH" division of CNH Global, N.V.
[edit] Major changes needed
I was disappointed when i first saw this article. IHC was a MAJOR company. You can still see many of their products still being used daily. This article needs a major cleanup and should not be associated with Navistar as much as it currently is. Hopefully in short time, this article will be decent enough that people who come here can get a good feel about this company history. Caster23 22:52, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
- I have started by putting a new infobox (defunct company)and rewriting the opening paragraph. The merger tag was removed because this article will soon be sufficiently written that no one will even think about merging with a company that really has nothing to do with it today. Caster23 22:52, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
- Well the article is coming along now. The agricultural division is primarily about tractors, but i cant see why it shouldn't be as tractors is what kept the company alive. A section about other farm related item should be added to the ag section too. Also, the home section needs information about the products offered to non-farmers, and farmers, alike. Caster23 19:01, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
- Note: I only have one source (a good book) for all the updates I've done in the Ag section and have cited it once (maybe twice?) in that section. Caster23 22:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Great work, Caster23! Since I added the merge tags, I finally feel I can unwatch Navistar and International Harvester. I really didn't know much about the subject, so I couldn't improve them myself. Congratulations :)
[edit] History of the strike
The section about the strike needs to be changed. My father worked for IH & went through this. The strike happened because Archie wanted to remodel ALL of the aging plants, but didn't want to pay unemployment. So, when contract negotiations started, management STOOD on the fact of mandatory overtime. The workers could be called in at anytime - something the Union had fought in the past but IH never pursued.
The strike ended the day contraction was finished & they took mandatory OT off the table. When everyone got back to work, most of their tools & belonging had been stolen or were damaged by the crews working on the plant. IH had to pay to fix all of this.
Someone has written about this, I think we need to use it & amend this part of the article. Thanks! Kmac1036 (talk) 02:10, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Construction Plant + UK Operations of IH
The Construction machinery (plant) get little mention yet at one stage IH were a major player in this sector taking over various firms and building some of the largest machines available in the 40 & 50s. Building crawler tractors and bulldozers from the 1920s. Taking over Hough Loaders Line. Moving on to build motor scrapers and large loader under the Payline brand. The Industrial products division range of Engineering machinery was part of IH before being sold off to Dresser during the 80s recession.
Dresser gets a brief mention above but not in main article. Dresser then merged with Komatsu of Japan.
UK arm of IH appears to be absent, but was a large operation with tractors and other products sold world wide. UK factory was merged with David Brown (Case) as part of Case - IH merger. with Case uk production moving there. Factory has now been Streamline and may have finished completely.
Article requires some filling out to give a balanced history of the company.
BulldozerD11 (talk) 15:00, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
