Wallut distributed IHC products under the McCormick name, while the Faul family company distributed the Deering brand until 1911. After International Harvester Company formed in 1902, the French branch known as Compagnie Internationale des Machines Agricoles (CIMA) was incorporated in 1906 and dedicated mainly to the Deering and Osborne brands.

McCormick constantly increased his company’s sales in France with the help of two French businessmen, Wallut and Faul. Later, the French awarded him the prestigious honors of chevalier (1868), then officer of the Légion d’honneur (1878). In 1867, the McCormick reaper won the grand prix of the Universal Exhibition. He had great success in Paris at the 1855 Universal Exhibition, where he won a gold medal facing seven competitors in the Trappe farm field show. You can purchase this book from the Farm Collector store: Red Tractors 1958-2013.Ĭyrus Hall McCormick had a long history of traveling to Europe to demonstrate his company wares. This excerpt comes from Jean Cointe, an expert in IHC’s entry into the French market, and the successes of McCormick-Deering. In this multi-part series, Farm Collector shares the first chapter of Red Tractor, “1958-1959 The Hinsdale Connection”. Author Lee Klancher leads a research team that has collected more than 380 pages and 700 images, documenting these beloved machines built in America and abroad. Red Tractors 1958-2013 ( Octane Press, 2013) is an authoritative and unparalleled look at the tractors built by International Harvester Company and Case IH.

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