Allis-Chalmers Prototypes

 

 

  I heard about a Monarch 75 with an Atlas Imperial diesel engine in it that had been sent out to Montana by Allis-Chalmers to be tested out on the Campbell Corporation farm. I called them and the fellow there told me to call another fellow that had worked for them back in the thirties, So I called him and he said he was 98 years old now and did in fact work for them back then, more in the late twenties than the thirties.

 He had a sharp memory, He told about running a Holt 120 crawler during grain harvest. It was slow but would pull 10 wagons of wheat at a time from the fields. Said you couldn't go over the hills but had to go around them while loaded. But alas he said when the Monarch showed up, he was driving truck and only seen it a few times but never got to see it work, nor did he know where it went to.

 Its stories like that that need to be written down..Like the corporation should have kept a history book or log journal of the happenings of the farm. ..I am supposing the old fellow I talked to some 12 years ago has been in the ground a long time now so I can't go and talk to him anymore to ask questions about anything else  like the story he told of a crew of fellows driving 13 Aultman Taylor tractors down from Great Falls Mt. to Forsyth and arriving with only 12...Somebody dissappeared with one.

 

 Write your stories down so the next generations can have some fun reading them and possibly fill in missing pieces of history of "what happened?" .

  That also goes for every one else that reads this, you should write the stories for your children or grandchildren and write those that been handed down to you or that you still can ask from grandpa or great great grandpa or grandmom.

Just a few minutes here and there over the span of a year would amount to quite a bit.

Consider writing about the stuff you take for granted, like the tool room, the die room, production problems AC had with certain tractors, the change over to Duetz, etc. It might not seem interesting to you, but it is fascinating to guys like me.

FWIW, over on redpower, one of the IH employees wrote in detail about the IH production system, the IH computer system, and building each tractor with the correct options....it was amazing to read!!!!!!!