Allis Chalmers

The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee was an American manufacturer with diverse interests, perhaps most famous for their bright, orange colored farm tractors. more...

History

• Started in the 1840's, Incorporated in Delaware.
• E.P. Allis, Fraser & Chalmers company merged with 2 other firms to create Allis-Chalmers.
• 1914 entered into farm equipment business.
• Product lines included, Agricultural Tractor (West Allis, WI), Implements (LaPorte, IN) and Industrial Tractor (Topeka, KS), Gleaner Combines (Independence, Mo), Hydroturbines (York PA), Process equipment (Valves, Pumps (York PA) and Compressors (West Allis, Wi), Electric Motors (Clevland, OH), Crushing and screening equipment (Appelton, WI), Comminution, Air Purification (IL), Coal Gasification (St Louis, MO) and Simplicity Garden Tractors (Port Washington, WI).
• Acquired the Monarch Tractor Company in 1928.
• 1928-1933 - Allis-Chalmers tractors were sold under the Cockshutt name by the Cockshutt company.
• Acquired Advance-Rumely, (LaPorte, IN), in 1931.
• Acquired Buda Engine Co., Harvey, Illinois, in 1953.
• Acquired Gleaner Harvester Co. 1955
• Acquired Vendeuvre in France in 1959.
• Acquired Simplicity in 1965.
• Simplicity was sold to its management in 1983.
• Farm equipment division was sold to K-H-D (Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz) AG of Germany in 1985, and renamed Deutz-Allis. (Later this was sold to AGCO, and tractors were sold under the AGCO-Allis and later just AGCO).
• Dispersal of the remaining manufacturing businesses in 1988.
• Office in Milwaukee closed January 1999
• At one time the manufacturing facility near Milwaukee was so large it was used as a landmark. The rumor has it that the city of West Allis was named because it was "West of Allis."

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