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20 unusual facts about International Harvester


Alan Reece

He worked as a Product Engineer for International Harvester Co., Doncaster from 1952–56, and then became an academic.

Bill McAfee

He was the co-owner of a truck and tractor company, a distributor for International Harvester, and was active in promoting Little League and PONY League baseball in Albany.

Brooks Lawrence

After his retirement from baseball, Lawrence worked for International Harvester in his hometown of Springfield, Ohio.

Cindy Courville

Her father worked for International Harvester while her mother was a seamstress and cook at Courville's childhood school.

Danmarks Traktormuseum

In addition to the larger collections of Bolinder-Munktell, Volvo, International and Ferguson, there are also several individual rarities.

Duchess of Marlborough Egg

The egg was bought by Ganna Walska, the second wife of Harold Fowler McCormick, chairman of the International Harvester Company of Chicago.

Gregorio Ramirez Gonzalez

They also produced the well known Rural Ramirez, an SUV and Pickup truck based on a model by International, which is still collected by some people in Mexico.

Helen Hunley

She first worked as an operator, served overseas in the Army Corp during World War II and eventually owned and operated an International Harvester franchise and an insurance business.

Hermann V. von Holst

In the period 1904-1906, von Holst created summer countryside estate architecture in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for socially prominent and wealthy clients, including Pittsburgh glassmaking millionaire George A. Macbeth and International Harvester partner John Glessner, whose Chicago Glessner House was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.

Ingersoll Power Equipment

In 1983, during the Case Corporation acquisition of International Harvester assets, their garden tractor division was sold to Ingersoll.

J. Esmonde Barry

Esmonde was a Sales Representative, then Zone Manager for International Harvester Company between 1947 to 1956.

Joseph Medill

He was the nephew of Cyrus McCormick, founder of the agricultural machinery company that became International Harvester.

Lewis Steward

In 1902, the company merged with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company to form International Harvester.

McCormick Observatory

In Chicago Cyrus, Leander and their brother William founded what became the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and eventually International Harvester.

Norlane, Victoria

Much of the housing was for employees at the nearby Ford Motor Company, International Harvester, Shell, Pilkington Glass, Hendersons and Pivot Phosphate factories.

Plains Art Museum

In October 1997, the Museum relocated to a renovated turn-of-the-century International Harvester warehouse in downtown Fargo, North Dakota.

Raphine, Virginia

He moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1847, and was the founder, with his brother Leander, of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company which became part of International Harvester Corporation in 1902.

The 1 in 12 Club

The late 1970s and early 1980s saw massive job losses across Britain and Bradford was no exception with GEC and International Harvester shutting plants in the City.

Waldemar Kaempffert

This devotion to objectivity, however, led to disputes with the board of directors, especially around the appointment of George Ranney, who was also a director of International Harvester.

Warder Mansion

It was one of five companies merged in 1902 to form International Harvester.


Carl C. Rasmussen

He worked for a subsidiary of International Harvester as a traveler in three Midwestern states and then in 1923 became part owner of a retail hardware business in Lakeside, California.

Chauncey McCormick

His father was William Grigsby McCormick (1851–1941), whose father William Sanderson McCormick (1815–1865) was one of the founders of McCormick Harvester, which merged in 1902 with the Deering Harvester Company founded by William Deering and others to form International Harvester Corporation.

Dodge LCF Series

A range of Dodge and International Harvester gasoline engines were available, as were diesels from Perkins (for lighter variants), Cummins, Caterpillar, and Detroit Diesel for the heaviest duty versions, both six-cylinder and V8 versions.

Dominion Bus Lines

Times Transit mostly operated International Harvester Loadstar and some S-Series buses (and two Loadstar wreckers) with white, green and red livery with an illuminated logo on the roof, a few buses with a green and white paint scheme, with Superior Coach bodies built under license by Manila Motor Works.

Pennco Tech

The engine-focused curriculum of the Diesel/Truck Technology course examines and rebuilding techniques and troubleshooting practices for engine blocks, blowers and turbochargers on Cummins, Volvo, Caterpillar, Detroit, Penta and International Harvester engines.