New Holland North America Inc company history timeline

1903

In 1903 the New Holland Machine Works was incorporated as the New Holland Machine Company and stock was sold to the local folks who knew a good investment when they saw it.

1906

1906 Leon Claeys, a Belgian mechanic, started to develop threshing machines, and in 1906 built his factory in Zedelgem, Belgium, where our plant still stands today.

1907

Ford pioneered the mass-production of gasoline-powered tractors and in 1907 introduced to the world it’s first prototype.

1910

In response to the need for improved roads in the area, Zimmerman designed and built a rugged jaw-type rock crusher and sold 27 units in 1910.

Edwin B. Nolt was born in Vogansville, Pennsylvania, not far from New Holland, in 1910.

1914

In 1914 Abram Zimmerman sold his share of the firm and resigned to join the Russellite religious movement that predicted the end of the world that year.

1917

1917 Ford first tractor built.

By 1917 the Fordson Model F went into production by Henry Ford & Son Company.

1918

1918 Fiat Model 702 tractor was launched and went into full production a year later in Turin.

1919

That company's efforts resulted in the development of the 702, Fiat's first mass produced tractor, which hit the market in 1919.

1930

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Italian auto maker Fiat was developing a tractor of its own. It continued to do well until about 1930, when the Great Depression began to hit rural America hard.

1937

1937 First automatic self-tie baler introduced.

1939

In 1939, Ford introduced the 3 point hitch (originally developed by Harry Ferguson) on the ‘N’ tractor Series.

1940

New Holland acquired the rights to build the baler in 1940 and production started later that year.

Even as early as 1940, United States defense industries were beginning to require enormous quantities of materials that were becoming increasingly scarce.

1941

In 1941 New Holland built 351 balers.

1946

By 1946 New Holland products included tractor saws, saw frames, husker-shellers, limestone pulverizers, roll crushers, jaw crushers, hammer crushers, belting, general purpose and cement mixers, and power units, as well as shellers and hammermills.

1947

Within months of this merger, Ford New Holland added on the agricultural division of Versatile Farm and Equipment Co., an agricultural equipment manufacturer that had been founded in Canada in 1947.

In 1947 New Holland announced their bale loader.

1948

The Belleville plant began producing side-delivery rakes in 1948.

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