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unusual facts about combine harvesters



Waggonfabrik Fuchs

The company was taken over in 1930 by the Vereinigung Westdeutscher Waggonfabriken (Westwaggon) and the majority of shares sold in 1940 to the Dillinger Hütte that, due to its location in the Saargebiet, sold its share of Fuchs in 1957 to the International Harvester Company, who switched its production to combine harvesters.


see also

Fahr

SAME Deutz-Fahr (SDF), an Italian-based manufacturer of tractors, combine harvesters, other agricultural machines, engines and equipment

Landau–Rohrbach railway

The John Deere company, which manufactures agricultural equipment, has a factory in Zweibrücken, from which freight trains were loaded with combine harvesters before the traffic converted to road transport.