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Topic: Old dealer locator
Posted By: DonDittmar
Subject: Old dealer locator
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 8:52am
Topic has been beaten like a dead horse on here I know, but I am looking for old dealers that are out of business, but the original buildings are still there. An example would be Patterson & Sons just to the east of St Johns, MI. I am compiling a list and putting there locations on my google maps. I would eventually like to visit these places and talk with the owners and maybe possibly write a book.........probably never happen but you got to start some place. 

Who had the dealership where the "Allis-Chalmers" letters were cemented into the roof?

Any dealers or locations you could share with me I would appreciate it


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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"

1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start



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Posted By: Rhoadesy_65
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 9:12am
Our local Agco/New holland dealer was an AC Dealer since the late 30s. North Star Implement in North Star, Ohio. North Star Hardware & Implement Company
169 S. Main St.
Their website shows their history  https://www.northstarimplement.com/about.htm" rel="nofollow - https://www.northstarimplement.com/about.htm




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Farmin' with 1981 7010 PD, Great Grandpas 1947 Farmall H, JD 7000 planter, JD model B drill, NH 316 Baler, NH 1411 Discbine ,JD 100 8 Shank Chisel. Darke County OH


Posted By: Allis-Chalmers Damon
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:05am
This would be a good place to start:

https://www.facebook.com/AllisChalmersMfgCo?sk=app_208195102528120" rel="nofollow - https://www.facebook.com/AllisChalmersMfgCo?sk=app_208195102528120

It shows locations of past dealerships. My great grandfather owned one in Deer Park, WA. The original building is still standing and is now an Automotive Repair Shop.


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1955 WD45 Diesel, 1959 D14, All-Crop Drill, 2015 John Deere 5075e, New Holland 279 Haybine, New Holland 575 square baler, New Holland 1032 Stackliner, 10ft Industrias Disc, 6ft Titan grapple


Posted By: Steve Bright
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:10am
Trafalgar Hardware, Allis Chalmers and New Idea.
John Lancaster was the last owner before they Closed.
He still farms a small farm in Trafalgar, Indiana 46181


Posted By: irlbeck A-C'S
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 12:23pm
I think Austin(WI) had a thread going with a list of dealerships. He was working on some kind of project with the info.

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B,C,CA,(2)WC's,(4)WD's,(2) WD45'S, 45Diesel, (2)D12'S Series 2, D12 Hiclear,(2)D12 Series 3, HD3, D17NF (3)D17 Series 4 Diesels, M-100 Grader,8550,A few Lawn tractors lots of other AC stuff    


Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 12:34pm
Larrick equipment White Post or Boyce VA
Patterson Equipment,Fairfield VA
Profitt Exchange,Profitt VA
Holmes Equipment,Elkwood VA
Dealer can't remember the name Brandy Station VA
Gill Implement Orange VA
Vess Equipment,Staunton VA
Crewe Tractor Crewe VA
Harmon Equipment,Harrisonburg VA
Valley Implement,Harrisonburg VA
All I can remember right now


Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 12:35pm
Wrights Wrecking Yard,Charlottesville VA


Posted By: exSW
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 2:31pm
These guys. Same building Massey now. Got to be the coolest dealer tag ever.


Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 4:00pm
In Md, AA county farmer's co-op, Glen Burnie, MD.  Gibson's farm equipment, Ingleside, Md.  Schafer's farm equipment, Burrsville -Denton Rd, not sure of the town...Wink

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Posted By: Tim NH
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 5:45pm
I saw that decal on that D 21 last year at the IL GOTO too. It does catch your eye.
   Tim


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1950 WD 1959 D14 1955 WD45 1976 7000 B 207


Posted By: dpower
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 8:49pm
Don I remember when that picture of that closed dealership was posted on here. The allis chalmers was cemented on top of the building. I was thinking it was somewhere in Missouri??? but I could be wrong. It was a really neat building but looked to be falling in.


Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:20pm
Are you going to go travel around and visit them.


Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 5:53am
Originally posted by Mikez Mikez wrote:

Are you going to go travel around and visit them.

I would like to some day



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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"

1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start


Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 7:35am
Yea that would be cool.
You can put us on your list.


Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 9:16am
Originally posted by DonDittmar DonDittmar wrote:

Topic has been beaten like a dead horse on here I know, but I am looking for old dealers that are out of business, but the original buildings are still there. An example would be Patterson & Sons just to the east of St Johns, MI. I am compiling a list and putting there locations on my google maps. I would eventually like to visit these places and talk with the owners and maybe possibly write a book.........probably never happen but you got to start some place. 

Who had the dealership where the "Allis-Chalmers" letters were cemented into the roof?

Any dealers or locations you could share with me I would appreciate it
Suess of Stewartville MN. Building burned but the owner, maybe co-owner with his now passed father is still around doing consignment auctions in Racine Mn. He is retiring from that too in December. There was a write up on them in some magazine not too long ago. Where I used to work in Blooming Prairie MN, Peterson Implement, the owners are all gone and the building is converted into a NAPA auto shop.


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Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 9:58am
Found these guys. CJ Wonsidler from Quakerstown PA

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x89c418a137ca446d:0xa93bb63cd9657769!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4s/maps/place/c.j.%2Bwonsidler%2Bquakertown%2Bpa/@40.3982033,-75.4054888,3a,75y,152.26h,90t/data%3D*213m4*211e1*213m2*211sFy_iEJhBZkmuvSYqoZmLIw*212e0*214m2*213m1*211s0x89c418a137ca446d:0xa93bb63cd9657769?sa%3DX!5sc.j.+wonsidler+quakertown+pa+-+Google+Search&imagekey=!1e2!2sFy_iEJhBZkmuvSYqoZmLIw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjo8vzA3KrkAhVCJKwKHeYgCMsQpx8wCnoECA4QBg" rel="nofollow - https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x89c418a137ca446d:0xa93bb63cd9657769!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4s/maps/place/c.j.%2Bwonsidler%2Bquakertown%2Bpa/@40.3982033,-75.4054888,3a,75y,152.26h,90t/data%3D*213m4*211e1*213m2*211sFy_iEJhBZkmuvSYqoZmLIw*212e0*214m2*213m1*211s0x89c418a137ca446d:0xa93bb63cd9657769?sa%3DX!5sc.j.+wonsidler+quakertown+pa+-+Google+Search&imagekey=!1e2!2sFy_iEJhBZkmuvSYqoZmLIw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjo8vzA3KrkAhVCJKwKHeYgCMsQpx8wCnoECA4QBg


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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"

1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start


Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 10:07am
Originally posted by Mikez Mikez wrote:

Yea that would be cool.
You can put us on your list.

My Idea is more of a pictorial history book. I would like to go and speak to the owners/families, get pictures of the dealership(or what remains) as it sits today and photos from when it was in its hayday and also a written history on each dealer. 


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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"

1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start


Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 10:08am
Still looking for the dealership with the letters cemented in the top of the roof........



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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"

1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start


Posted By: BigGuy1000
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 11:08am
Morrison Implement
647 W Lincolnway
Morrison, Il 61270
Ron Stichter
Jeff Hanson









Posted By: allis g
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 12:19pm
McGrath implement in New Hampton Iowa. Now called Agland same family


Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 2:37pm
Originally posted by allis g allis g wrote:

McGrath implement in New Hampton Iowa. Now called Agland same family
They are a good dealer by my reckoning.


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Posted By: Dan Hauter
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2019 at 9:13pm
J.C. Archer and Son, Inc., Shipman, IL. Building is still there on IL. Rt. 16 and it's still called "The Archer Building". It's a post, metal frame building. Original dealership was in an old gas station east of the Archer Building. Old gas station is now a restaurant. (Yum, right?)


Posted By: Dan Hauter
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2019 at 9:18pm
Sorry to say, my grandfather's old A-C dealership in Jerseyville, IL. no longer exists. I'd be hard pressed to even guess the location. Super Wal-Mart, Burger King, Arbys, and other businesses have taken over all the properties in that area. It was called Hauter Farm Supply. I don't even have a picture of it. My dad and grandmother had absolutely no interest in the business so Grandpa sold it.


Posted By: Blue Ridge
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2024 at 4:24am
 Norwalk Michigan.  Charles Smazal opened a small Allis Chalmers dealership way back.  As a child in the 1960s I listened to old Charlie's stories of taking in Teams on trade for a new tractor.  He claimed he had the first electric arc welder in manistee county at his dealership.  The original small wood building is still there.  I assume the new tractors sat outside and his office and repair/mechanics shop was inside.  Norwalk, located about 12 miles north of Manistee, on Old US-31 used to be on the main highway US-31.  It had a small railroad spur large enough for 3 or 4 railcars for loading and unloading tractors, local fruit and produce for the market. Back then Norwalk had a General Store that was also the Post Office, Filling Station and Passenger Rail service.  A railroad spur with a small warehouse, a railroad repair shack that housed a Put-Put railcar.  The Put-Put had a small one cylinder long stroke gasoline engine that replace the two-man yoke that powered the repair car.  Norwalk also had Charlie's tractor dealership, four houses and a little factory that I do not know what its product was.  Maybe a wristwatch or clock factory?


Posted By: caledonian
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2024 at 10:28pm
The Hancock Farm Equipment buildings still exist in Herman and Tekamah Nebraska.


Posted By: Dennis J OPKs
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024 at 7:53am
I believe Hancock also had a location in Blair.  My Dad bought a D 17 from them.  There were AC dealers sprinkled all over that country.  I doubt that the building is still there.



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