AC factory auction
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Topic: AC factory auction
Posted By: Lynn Marshall
Subject: AC factory auction
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2025 at 10:20pm
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Posted By: 55allis
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2025 at 11:36pm
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I was wondering what happened to everything in the factory, thanks for posting!! ------------- 1955 AC WD45 diesel with D262 repower, 1949 AC WD, 1963 A-C D17 series 3, several Allis garden tractors 
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Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2025 at 4:49am
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Interesting video & perspective. Thanks for sharing it. Minimum bid was $25 which may have purchased many a multi-million dollar items. Cranes, tooling, un-finished tractors sitting on their production lines when the line was powered down. Crazy. Probably a good thing I was not there? |
Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2025 at 4:41pm
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We, Joe Coleman from J&J Sales, Ronnie Hill from Farm Sales, Franklin, Tn and Tom Silvers from Alabama all went together to the parts sale of the tractor plant. This was different than this. Supposed to be dealers only and Deutz-Allis parts purchasing. Have told this before, but we bought nearly all the 7000/8000 series high crops final drive and front axle parts for less than 10 grand witch included about a truck load of other stuff. I almost panicked when I realized I had not arranged trucking, but Bill Homier from Homier and Sons came to my aide. We shipped the parts to Cane equipment Plaquemine La / Bill Satterwhite. they put it in storage and years later the Austin Indiana Hunley (Austin and Everett) boys used these to reverse engineer and put on the HC units they built for Agco. Also at the sale they actually had 3 tubs of snap coupler parts - one tub lower - one tub upper then the springs and rivets & other stuff - I wound up the the lowers - when the sale was over I started pitching the lowers in the uppers to even them out. Some dealers' wife came over and threatened to 'call the law' if I didn't put them back. I tried to explain that one was no good w/o the other and was making no headway when her hubby came up - I explained the situation and he looked at me and said put them back or I"LL call the law.I told him I had a better idea - you take them both ! (about a $50 loss for 50 pieces that I paid) Geeeze.. Anyway Ronnie Hill and Deutz Allis bought about all the wet clutch plates - thousands - There was one dealer who started bidding and run up the bid on some power director clutch plates that only DA was bidding on - after the bidding on them was over the dealer said "by gawd I made them pay for that!" To which Ronnie Hill went up to him and very loudly told him he was an idiot because he just run up the price he was going to have to pay for them if he needed any. The crowd applauded. Later Ronnie got a call and sold several hundred plates back to Batavia - he did it as a service to other dealers - Ronnie - who moved to Eagleville and has passed away - was a super guy - one in a million. Just a few old AC tales. ------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2025 at 4:51pm
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Springfield Illinois was the Dozer plant for the 21C- 31- 41B big tractors ( later the FD30- 40- 50 ..... When the plant closed, they took out all the dozers and sent to the dealers.. All the tooling , equipment was sold at a big auction.. I didnt go, but several guys went and said they bought like a 1 inch taper shank drill for $1..... they had used them on "thier" machine when they worked in the plant. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2025 at 7:47pm
| Very interesting,, Thanks!!! Went thru that at Maytag,,, tried to compete with Mexican wire harnesses- had all kinds of machines built to make that happen- 6 months later- all hauled to scrap,,,, the end--- it is so very sad that just the down turn of the eightys in Ag Sales- just screwed them all up,, but reading thru more info - dam they were in debt ,,, crazy business practices,, |
Posted By: JimWenigOH
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2025 at 6:19pm
| Thanks for sharing, very interesting.... what a waste of resources, so so sad. |