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gh-in-oh 
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 5:46pm |
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Ok I know allis was in the ag line. Reading post below about golf carts and chain saws got me wondering what else were they making. If anyone can provide a list, I would appreciate it. Thanks
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Jason in MO
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 5:49pm |
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I know that during WW2 they made generators for the navy. I also believed that they may have made electrical switchgear as well.
Edited by Jason in MO - 20 Dec 2016 at 5:57pm
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 5:56pm |
Get a copy of C.H. Wendell's book, The Allis Chalmers Story. Sure will save a lot of bandwidth... 
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 6:06pm |
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They made a little bit of everything, construction equipment, lawn and garden,refrigerators,home furnaces, mining equipment,military equipment, electrical equipment,golf carts,mini bikes,turbines,pumps and on and on. A book by C.H. Wendell called The Allis-Chalmers Story mentions a lot of the stuff they made.
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 6:06pm |
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Haha, Dave beat me to it.
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 6:25pm |
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Just about anything you can think of. The Allis Chalmers story is a great book!
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 6:29pm |
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I do not know what Allis Charmers made, but Allis ChaLmers made stuff that Grinder mentioned (and then some).
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 6:55pm |
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At one time Allis-Chalmers could make an entire loaf of bread from the ground to the finished product...
Plus one more try to find a copy of C.H. Wendel's book.
Edited by Brian Jasper co. Ia - 20 Dec 2016 at 6:58pm
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 8:05pm |
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Allis Chalmers manufactured generators & turbines for many water Dam projects that are still in use today.
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 8:58pm |
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Hey gh-in-oh, would you edit the title of your post, it hurts my eyes to read it.
There's a "The Allis Chalmers Story" book on eBay now for $750 obo in case you really have to have one.
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 9:15pm |
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LOL
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 9:48pm |
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I saw on the History channel once that they also made parts for the B17 during WWII.
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 9:50pm |
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candy makers, water softeners, furnaces, electrical motors, mill stones the list is to great. I would be easier to say any thing from A-Z.
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Thanks & God Bless
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 10:23pm |
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The "Allis Chalmers Story" book on Amazon - paperback from $48
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 10:58pm |
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Yup at one time they were into just about everything you could emagine. Fridge in your house to the kiln at the cement plant, the sprinkler in your lawn to the pumps in the sewers. And then some.
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Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 11:19pm |
They invented the multiple V belt that revolutionized weaving cloth and manufacturing grain products. Before the V-belt manufacturers used line drive shafts with pulleys that drove flat belts that flapped and jerked. They had one large unreliable motor. That broke threads
and made weaving threads
for cloth a nightmare. With the V- belt and individual electric motors that revolutionized the manufacturing process.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 1:20am |
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While we're generally all enthusiasts of Allis-Chalmers' farm equipment and construction equipment, it, and everything related, was actually more of a 'side avocation' to A-C.
Let's start with steam engines... from an industrial perspective, Most that AC made were considered 'medium sized'... aka 'under 2000hp', but they made larger. Most of the steam, gas, and water turbines that generate the power to run your computer, including those found in nuclear power facilities, were produced by Allis-Chalmers. The transformers on the pole outside your window... the pole-top switches, the distribution and transmission substations, capacitor banks, current measurement transformers, potential transformers, rotary and static VAR converters, and the huge generators, exciters, and other equipment that makes large-volume generation possible... all wore the AC badge. Tour any of the Dams along the Colorado River, or the Tennessee Valley, and you'll see the AC badge. Great big roller gats for the nation's navigable rivers... yep, by AC.
They poured engine blocks using the 'leftover' scraps of much, much larger pours. There were some incredible industrial engineers there...
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 1:58am |
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It's a shame that a company that could produce all the stuff to help mankind, have paying jobs where people could care for themselves instead of just barely scraping by be raped of their capital and sent overseas. I would imagine that the big wigs of the company didn't get hurt tho.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 5:55am |
At one time Allis-Chalmers had 90% of the flour milling and flaking equipment market, built large ore crushers, ball mills, kilns (everything for the cement industry) portable gravel crushers, all things electrical (generation and transmission) construction (HD-41 was the worlds largest bulldozer at the time), mine hoists, pumps, forklifts, railway equipment. They may still be here if they hadn't bled off profits from the ag division to prop up other money losers.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 6:23am |
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Oh gosh. I did not know it was chalmers. I have only had two of them for 45 years. Lol. Sorry about the typo. And thanks for the replies/book suggestion. Ya all have a merry Christmas.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 6:46am |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 6:53am |
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Oh Gosh
- and a member for only 6 years - and 47 Posts ??
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 7:39am |
May I ask what is your home town?
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 8:05am |
 Dusty MI wrote:
May I ask what is your home town?
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If you were asking about my post with the mine rock crusher I am in Negaunee, MI. In the UP, little town by Marquette.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 8:08am |
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Sorry Gary. Love the site and all the information. Just don't have a whole lot of knowledge to share compared to most on this site. Plus I obviously can't spell very well. 😜
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 1:19pm |
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AC also made two snowmobiles. One is on
display at the snowmobile museum in
Naubinway Mi.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 1:59pm |
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Allis pretty much made everything at one point
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 6:31pm |
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I work on fire pumps. I know they made those.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 7:24pm |
Gary wrote:
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Not meaning to jump on Gary and sure he didn't mean any harm. It's just not a good reply to post.
This is the type of comments that makes peoples leave this great site. I have been close to leaving a few times as well. You sure what you know and have done just for someone to accuse you of lying or stretching the truth. This is why I started to add pictures and videos. Everyone on this site has different knowledge and experiences. Some are just learning to walk and others are running marathons. We need to treat everyone with understanding and respect so we all have positive experiences. Why is it that some people think their better or more entitled than others?
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Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 7:51pm |
Big Allis,.......... formally known as Ravenswood No. 3, is a giant electric power generator originally commissioned by Consolidated Edison Company (ConEd) and built by the Allis-Chalmers Corporation in 1965. Currently owned by Transcanada Corp., it is located on 36th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard in western Queens, New York. Its main fuel is natural gas.
During 1963, Allis-Chalmers announced that ConEd had ordered the "world’s first MILLION-KILOWATT unit...big enough to serve 3,000,000 people." This sheer scale helped the plant become popularly known as "Big Allis".
Edited by steve(ill) - 21 Dec 2016 at 7:52pm
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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