Changing times . . .
Seems like there's always been an Allis in some shape or form on this farm since before there was even an EdB. It wasn't Allis then, but dad had a Gleaner Baldwin combine that he bought new in 1941. After AC bought Baldwin, we had AC Gleaners and the AC D-21 tractor showed up on the farm in 1966. It is still here and gets a fair amount of use as the power for my big grain auger and grain vac. No field work anymore though. I went away from wheel tractors and got into Cat Challengers, but even that didn't work to wean me from what used to be AC, as a year after buying the Cat MT, they sold the ag division to AGCO and all of a sudden I had an AGCO tractor working my fields.
I heard it said once, that Allis Chalmers was the only company in the world that could supply everything needed to build a hydro-electric dam. All the way from dirt moving equipment to the water turbines, alternators, and transformers. Same went for nuke plants. Turn key operations from the ground up and they didn't have to go out of house for anything.