Plant locations

Gleaner was Cold Water Ohio, Dad hauled several of them from there

Some good books are C.H Wendell's  The Allis Chalmers Story

Gleaners were built in Independence Missouri. Tillage equipment in Lacrosse WI until about 1970 when it closed and production moved to LaPorte. Laporte basically built implements and was the old home of Rumely. Garden tractor were built in Port Washington WI at Simplicity. A.C. built a plant in the southeast that operated for a few years but most everything came from Simplicity.

LaPorte was All-Crops, Roto Balers, Square Balers, Rakes, Haybines, Spreaders, Cotton pickers, Combine and tractor cabs, Corn heads, Grain heads, some tillage and planters. 

I went to LaPorte with my Dad when I was about 12 years old.  Dad picked up four cornheads and hauled them home on the flatbed truck we had for the dealership at that time.  The LaPorte loading boys stood the cornheads up on their back and used high tensile wire to fasten them to the truck (and each other).

I was gonna say,, Independece Mo was famous for the Gleaner combine plant,,, never heard of anything in Ohio till Deutz Allis and their tractor production from Coldwater

Edited by DougG - 14 Aug 2017 at 6:44pm

AC Diesel engines - Harvey, IL

Freeman loader corp made some of their trip loaders for them also, in Peru Indiana. They were contracted also.




Edited by Josh Day - 15 Aug 2017 at 8:22pm

New Idea started gearing up for the Unisystem in 1965. I hired in at 18 that year and quit in 1984 when Allied bought it from Avco.

Found it. The Allis 300/400 series was made at a plant in Lexington, South Carolina. They built that plant due to the antitrust lawsuit, as soon as that was repealed, they went back to Simplicity made in Port Washington.

ACjack wrote: AC7060IL wrote: AC Diesel engines - Harvey, IL Add to that the gasoline fueled G-153, G-230 & G-2800 engines to name a few. The letter preceding the engine series number identified it as being a gasoline or diesel fueled engine. "G"= gasoline and "D"=diesel.

ACjack, glad to see that you chimed in on this posting. Thanks for clarifying about the gasoline engines being mfg at Harvey, as well.

I have never heard of gleaners being made in ohio. There were a few that came to the states from the Mexican plant. I live about 40 minutes from the old plant and have a lot of guys in the area that use to work there. None have ever talked about gleaners from an ohio plant.

I probably was wrong on Ohio, my memory isn't great, and I probably miss-understood when Dad was talking about it.  My recalling was that he went to Ohio for the combines, but the dealership also handled New Idea so that could be what he went for instead.  I just know he made a lot of trips to Ohio, Wisconsin, and Missouri.  Most of the time when he talked about Missouri it was the trips to the consignment auctions down there to pick up equipment.

Totton, Southampton UK plant made the Model B. Essendine UK plant the Model B, D270, D272, ED40 tractors, Roto-Baler, 60 ACH, Models A, C, 2000 Combines, the AC Tractomotive Deerfield Wheel Loader range with UK AEC Maudsley or Perkins engines and mining equipment. The Mold, North Wales plant the square Baler range. Production ceased at Essendine in 1982; another controversial decision by Fiat-Allis!