this guy has 4 of these Fiat Allis dozers, powered by Cummings 1150s, with 22 ft blades, using 22 gallons an hour, weighs 96,000 pounds. 2 guys working side by side move a 44 ft wide path. These came from coal mines
That's cool. Love those old girls. Here's an Australian farmer with D11 (might only have two now but had three at one time) https://www.youtube.com/@thejacksonbrothers
These critters (Model 31) were built at the Allis Chalmers plant in Springfield, Illinois, probably in the early 80’s. Things were not going well with the heavy equipment end of the AC product line, so in 1974 they sold 65% of it to Fiat, using the cash to finance other stuff. With controlling interest Fiat did as they pleased, with unfortunate results. My father was very, very fortunate to snag a job at the AC plant in Milwaukee at some point in the early 30’s. He retired shortly before or after the Fiat deal and correctly predicted the company’s demise a few years later, pointing out that the company was selling it’s assets to stay afloat.
Given that the 31 was a scaled down version of the bigger 41 which went into production in 1970, my thought is Fiat had little if anything to do with the development of the 31. A good argument can be made that Fiat, like AMF buying Harley in the 60’s, figured they could suck up profits from an established name, and just let it die.
That's cool. Love those old girls. Here's an Australian farmer with D11 (might only have two now but had three at one time) https://www.youtube.com/@thejacksonbrothers
ReplyDeleteyup, their big dozers don't spend much time on screen though.
DeleteI've seen several of their videos
This is great stuff!
ReplyDeleteThese critters (Model 31) were built at the Allis Chalmers plant in Springfield, Illinois, probably in the early 80’s. Things were not going well with the heavy equipment end of the AC product line, so in 1974 they sold 65% of it to Fiat, using the cash to finance other stuff. With controlling interest Fiat did as they pleased, with unfortunate results. My father was very, very fortunate to snag a job at the AC plant in Milwaukee at some point in the early 30’s. He retired shortly before or after the Fiat deal and correctly predicted the company’s demise a few years later, pointing out that the company was selling it’s assets to stay afloat.
Given that the 31 was a scaled down version of the bigger 41 which went into production in 1970, my thought is Fiat had little if anything to do with the development of the 31. A good argument can be made that Fiat, like AMF buying Harley in the 60’s, figured they could suck up profits from an established name, and just let it die.
exactly! Good example, AMF/Harley.
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