Edward Denner
Loading...
5
subscribers
2,008
video views
John Deere 57
Featured Playlists
John Deere
John Deere died in 1886, and the presidency of Deere & Company passed to Charles Deere. By now the company was manufacturing a variety of farm equipment products in addition to plows, including wagons, corn planters, cultivators. The company even expanded into the bicycle business briefly during the 1890s, but the core focus of the company remained on agricultural implements. Increased competition during the early 1900s from the new International Harvester Company led the company to expand its offerings in the implement business, but it was the production of gasoline tractors which would come to define Deere & Company's operations during the twentieth century.
In 1912, Deere & Company president William Butterworth, who had replaced Charles Deere after his death in 1907, began the company's expansion into the tractor business. Deere & Company briefly experimented with its own tractor models, the most successful of which was the Dain All-Wheel-Drive, but in the end decided to continue its foray into the tractor business by purchasing the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company in 1918, which manufactured the popular Waterloo Boy tractor at its facilities in Waterloo, Iowa. Deere & Company continued to sell tractors under the Waterloo Boy name until 1923, when the John Deere Model D was introduced. The company still manufactures most of its tractors in Waterloo, Iowa.
According to John Ratzenberger, host of the Travel Channel series "Made in America", Deere & Company never repossessed any equipment from American farmers during the Great Depression. This was revealed during the shows profile of Deere & Company.[3]
In 1956, Deere & Company bought-out the German tractor manufacturer,
107 videos
Play all(107)
view all
107 videos
Play all(107)
Advertisement
Featured Channels
-
Oscar®
83,393
subscribers
-
Disney•Pixar
120,376
subscribers
-
VEVO
1,187,472
subscribers
-
YouTube
480,634
subscribers
-
The Google Channel
532,720
subscribers
-
Apple
383,378
subscribers
-
Sony Pictures
78,055
subscribers
-
Universal Pictures
18,656
subscribers
-
The White House
200,545
subscribers
-
TLC
103,129
subscribers