New Book / Top 10 Allis-Chalmers Tractor

Hello,

I think the WD was pretty important. Hydraulic snap coupler hitch, traction booster, live PTO wet clutch, power adjust rims, etc. Not many of those features around at their introduction in 1948. 

The U with air(rubber) tires. The tractor races, Barney Oldfield.

The 7000 series and the 8000 series. They were both very innovative for their time.

The B introduced the Torque Tube design, and was the first affordable replacement for a team of horses for the small (100 acres or less) farmer.

Hello Lee,

Yep, there's a whole host of guys I'd want to interview for a book, including, but not limited to, Bill Long, tbran, Dr. Allis, etc. 

Definitely the B, it replaced the horses on a lot of farms.
The U, first to have rubber tires.
The WC, affordable for everyone and a workhorse.
The WD45, was way past anything else at the time as per horsepower and weight.
The G, the small garden tractor. Worth it's weight in gold (almost).
The D-17 Series IV
The D-19 D because of the turbo
The D-21, a BIG step up and still coveted.
Then on to the 7000 and 8000 series.  BIG steps and ahead of their time.

The side exhaust manure spreader.
The model 60's combines.

The Snap-Coupler system that was HEADS above anything else, then and since.  STILL better than the 3 point.
The traction booster system.

My head hurts from thinking......

#1 should absolutely be the WC. That tractor is what put Allis-Chalmers on the agricultural map (along with the All-Crop combine) and without it I believe Allis would have been with the ranks of other unknowns like the Wallace or Samson tractors.

The WC was the first tractor designed for rubber tires and offer them as standard equipment and offered them with fluid in the tires for weight (Hydromatic tires) and high HP to weight with a road speed built in from the start; one of the first if not the first to offer as standard equipment, electric starter and lights (1938 and on); first successful tractor designed using high strength steel in it's construction; and was a very affordable 2 plow tractor. Not to mention it's quick acting gutty engine and simple design. Forget the WC and you don't have a book for me....... well if it's got orange in the book it'll still be for me. Let me not go overboard!

I have to put in a vote for the G.  Also the WD or WD45 as they were Allis's answer to the Farmall M and Oliver 77.  I don't think John Deere was in the running at that point, still building two cylinder molar shakers.  The D19 was an improvement over the JD 4010 and anything the other companies were putting out at the time.  The same for the D21.  The 7000 series was more of a catch up with the others but the 8000 series was again years ahead of the competition.
Thank you for joining our group and if you put out the book you are talking about, I along with a bunch of others on the forum will be customers.

I'm a big fan of the 8000 series.  I was doing some maintenance on the 8050 this weekend and feeling sad that Allis is gone but at the same time, what a high note to leave on.  It was nearly a decade before anyone else had a cab as nice. 

Include my vote for the Model B. In the northeast, the small farms needed something affordable to replace a team. In the late 30's and prewar 40's, a B with basic attachments/implements for less than $1000 fit the bill. I still see them everywhere I look. Bob@allisdowneast

I'd love to photograph the electric tractor, and I travel to MSP on occasion. Can you put me in touch with whoever has that?

Allis Chalmers tractors were the most intivated tractor in history one thing that is over looked on them is the wet sleeves.  as far as I know that was a first and also inserted valve seats and guides- air tires- wet clutch- power shift wheels a power director clutch that held back in low range-4x4 square engine- snap coupler the easiest system for hitching and unhitching imp. ever devised and always under rated in horse power. Allis Chalmers always had the best engineers.  Most companys with there first tractors bought rights from other companys  as JD did but A-C was home grown ! The list of Allis Chalmers firsts goe's on and on.

45 turboa- wrote: Most companys with there first tractors bought rights from other companys  as JD did but A-C was home grown ! The list of Allis Chalmers firsts goe's on and on.