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Originally Posted by bocephus1991
The reasons Jon listed as to the demise of IH is right far as I know. IH tried to do to many diffrent things. Had they split off the divisions to keep each insulated from each other things may have been different. A lot of their manufacturing facilities were outdated, heck the owned mines that they got the ore from to make steel! Also their foundries were outdated as well. It was a perfect storm for failure that came together at the wrong time. I still feel that if they could have gotten the magnum out in the 70's like they wanted they would still be around today.
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I had the exact same thought. The magnum cab with the 88 series front end experimental tractor. The magnum series would have helped IH for sure.
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Cubs: 2072 w/60" Haban, 782 w/Johnson 14 loader & 44" deck, & 169.
Others: Ford 120, Ford LGT100, Ford LGT125, 2 - Ford LGT145s, & 4 - John Deere 140, H1 and H3.
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