KHD purchase of Allis

At the time when KHD purchased Allis-Chalmers ag division, were the factories already shutdown?

JarrodACFan wrote: I don't think so, but they were closed shortly after the buyout. I say this because the last tractor off the West Allis line had Deutz-Allis decals on it.

KHD only bought the Ag line.

Must have been a worrisome job for the remaining employees- slapping  new decals on remaining inventory. Did they make the dealers change the decals on unsold tractors?

Our F3 Gleaner  had the Deutz-Allis stickers over the A/C stickers also. So did both the heads.

From what I've read all tractors that were on dealer lots unsold had to have the decal changed for warrenty reasons. Maybe that was in swinfords book? I can't remember off the top of my head.

we have an N6 and an L3 that are late enough they say deutz, but are still all orange. the center caps have allis under the cap, pressed up from the inside, but have an external KHD sticker. IIRC, the SN tags still say Allis. there are small decals that went over allis, but on the butt end of the machines where it was all galvanized, I bet decal remover was in order for the individual block letters.

Edited by GM Guy - 20 Aug 2012 at 8:18pm

I believe KHD only got unsold inventory and did not assemble any tractors but I could be wrong. I've seen a few KHD green 8000 series back in the day but I think they might have been repainted and redecaled at the dealership. I was told most of them had to be re repainted orange to sell them. 

I remember my Dad and uncles asking the company rep at our local dealer's annual open house when they were going to return to orange and the guy laughed and said farmers weren't interested in what color their tractors were painted. I also remember when Deutz first bought Allis and how the rep promised that they were going to continue the 8000 and 6000 series tractors and had no plans for shutting that production down. Liar liar liar. Before Deutz-Allis I had family members who bought new Allis-Chalmers orange tractors and after Deutz-Allis they started buying new or near new tractors with warrantee. Never did anyone in my family ever buy a green tractor new or used and I'll wager that there will never be a new or used Massey-Ferguson bought by a single family member either. So was that company rep correct when he said farmers don't care what color their tractors are? My cousin who is the the largest farmer in the family has already started the switch to CaseIH with a CaseIH combine and now a CaseIH 4WD. He said he'll never own a Massey and I believe him. Hows that for taking it off topic?

I put a few of those decals over Allis decals .Tractors that where bought under Allis credit that farmers had, where to have the decals put on them also. I still have a set of decals ,went out to a farm to do some work on other tractors  and while there was to install these decals ,Farmer would not let me put them on , so I kept them in my tool box .

I always thought Allis sold off the wrong assets. The name might still be around if they had dumped their energy business.

Ha ha ha, not even gonna comment,, back,,yes I will,, that would have been the only way to keep Orange tractors around at that time, putting Duetz engines in ,,, this dude commenting as Victory whatever don't see the whole picture of the late 80, s just my opinion ,, and I LUV OPINIONS LOL

Edited by DougG - 02 Feb 2019 at 4:24pm

DougG wrote: Ha ha ha, not even gonna comment,, back,,yes I will,, that would have been the only way to keep Orange tractors around at that time, putting Duetz engines in ,,, this dude commenting as Victory whatever don't see the whole picture of the late 80, s just my opinion ,, and I LUV OPINIONS LOL

I’ve spent way too much time wrenching on the motor of our Duetz powered R52 to ever touch one again. Dealer was 3/4 mile from my house plenty around at one time all the kraut cans are dead.