List of former tractor manufacturers

This is a list of companies that formerly manufactured and / or sold tractors. Some tractor and / or agricultural machinery companies have discontinued manufacturing, or were bought out or merged with other companies, or their company names may have changed.

The production numbers of tractors in the USA amounted to 10,300 from the first vehicles up to 1915. In 1916, 29,670. In 1917, 62,742, and in 1918, 132,697 tractors. ^[1]^[2] In 1919, 164,590. ^[3] In 1920, 203,207. ^[4] In 1921, 73,198. ^[5] In 1922, 99,692. In 1923, 134,590. In 1924, 119,305. In 1925, 167,640. In 1926, 181,995. In 1927, 200,500. In the year 1918, there were 130 different tractor manufacturers in the USA. ^[6] From 1900 to 1947, 593 tractor manufacturers in the USA exist. ^[7]

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Year	Production	Gas Tractors	Ford gasoline tractors	Gas establishments	Steam Tractors	steam establishments
1849-1884			0			A.L. Archambault (1849) ^[8]
1885 ^[9]			0		> 379 (195 Case 153 Huber 31 Port Huron)	Case Huber Port Huron
1886			0		> 352 (182 Case 130 Huber 40 Port Huron)	Case Huber Port Huron
1887			0		> 473 (236 Case 195 Huber 42 Port Huron)	Case Huber Port Huron
1888			0
1889		6	0	Charter Gas Engine/ Rumely ^[10]	~3,000
1890		1	0	Taylor		O.S. Kelley
1891		3	0	William Deering/ New Ideal ^[11]		Minnesota
1892		3	0	John Froehlich/ Van Duzen Gas Case C.H. Dissinger and Bros. Patterson ^[12]
1893		2	0	J.A. Hockett John Froehlich/ Waterloo		Geiser
1894		3	0	Van Duzen Otto Gas Lambert Gas
1895		3	0	Waterloo Davis Webster
1896			0			D. June
1897		1	0	McCormic
1898 ^[13]		35	0	Kinnard & Sons McCormic Huber
1899		29	0	Kinnard & Sons S.S. Morton		Port Huron
1900			0
1901 ^[14]		1	0	Hart Parr	~5,000	30
1902		↓	0	Hart Parr Massey-Harris ^[15]
1903		13 ^[16]	0	Hart Parr Massey-Harris Lauson Morton Foos Alamo Stover St. Maryˋs ^[17]
1904			0	(6 Companies) ^[18]^[19] Gas Traction Co. Hart Parr Dissinger Electric Wheel
1905			0	(6 Companies) Gas Traction Company Hart Parr
1906			0	(9 Companies) Eagle Hart Parr
1907 ^[20]		( ? wheeled 1 tracklaying 0 garden)	0	(8 Companies)
1908			0	(6 Companies) Chase Holt
1909 ^[21]		~2,000	0	(9 Companies) Avery
1910		~4,000	0	(15 Companies) ^[22] Advance-Rumely
1911		~7,000	0	(20 Companies)
1912		~11,000	0	(31 Companies) Allis-Chalmers Case
1913		~7,000	0	(39 Companies) Waterloo
1914		~10,000	0	(58 Companies)
1915		~21,000	0	(61 Companies)
1916		29,670	0	(114 Companies) Fageol Moline
1917		62,752	254 ^[23]	(124 Companies) Albaugh-Dover ^[24]
1918		132,697	34,167	Acason Bethlehem ;128		Advance-Rumely Aultman & Taylor Avery Baker, A.D. Buffalo-Pitts Case Threshing Machine Company Swayne,Robinson & Co. Frick Farquhar, A. B. Emerson-Brantingham Heilman Machine Works Keck-Gonnerman Leader Tractor Manufacturing Co. Port Huron Russell & Co. Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company Napoleon Manufacturing Co. Huber Manufacturing Co. Harrison Machine Works Nichols & Shepard Scheidler Machine Works Westinghouse Cascaden Manufacturing Wood Brothers ^[25]
1919		164,590	57,290
1920 ^[26]	204,973	203,207	70,955	(90 Companies) Worthington	1,766	15
1921	74,366	73,198 (~ 68,000 wheeled)	36,761	94	1,168	18
1922	100,088	99,692 (94,607 wheeled 4,187 tracklaying 898 garden)	68,985	81	396	14
1923		134,590 (~ 131,900 wheeled)	101,898 ^[27]
1924 ^[28]	120,823	119,305 (112,188 wheeled 4,612 tracklaying 2,505 garden)	83,010	47	1,518	14
1925 ^[29]	167,650	167,553 (158,037 wheeled 6,060 tracklaying 3,456 garden)	104,168	53	97	7
1926 ^[30]	181,995	181,995 (170,302 wheeled 7,772 tracklaying 3,921 garden)	99,101	29+5+13	0	0
1927 ^[31]	200,504	200,504 (184,594 wheeled 10,319 tracklaying 5,591 garden)	~50,000 (No. 700,000 reached in 1928) ^[32]	26+6+17	0	0
1928 ^[33]	175,934	175,934 (152,266 wheeled 19,203 tracklaying 4,465 garden)		x+9+15	0	0
1929 ^[34]	228,976	228,976 (195,980 wheeled 27,101 tracklaying 5,895 garden)		x+11+15	0	0
1930 ^[35]	202,458	202,458 (176,075 wheeled 20,222 tracklaying 6,161 garden)		x+11+13	0	0
1931 ^[36]	71,704	71,704 (61,940 wheeled 7,089 tracklaying 2,675 garden)		First Diesel Tractor by Caterpillar (Diesel 65) ^[37] x+8+11	0	0
1932 ^[38]	no data collected	~19,000 ^[39]			0	0
1933 ^[40]	no data collected	~34,200 ^[41]			0	0
1934 ^[42]	no data collected	~47,900 ^[43]			0	0
1935 ^[44]	161,131	161,131 (138,084 wheeled 18,774 tracklaying 4,273 garden)		x+x+16	0	0
1936 ^[45]	227,185	227,185 (193,947 wheeled 27,299 tracklaying 5,939 garden)		x+x+13	0	0
1937 ^[46]	283,155	283,155 (237,837 wheeled 34,602 tracklaying 10,716 garden)		x+x+13	0	0
1938 ^[47]	199,223	199,223 (172,437 wheeled 16,837 tracklaying 9,949 garden)		42	0	0
1939 ^[48]	218,462	218,462 (188,558 wheeled 20,127 tracklaying 9,777 garden)			0	0
1940 ^[49]	283,546	283,546 (249,434 wheeled 24,762 tracklaying 9,350 garden)		x+x+14	0	0
1941 ^[50]	358,520	358,520 (313,432 wheeled 28,661 tracklaying 16,427 garden)			0	0
1942 ^[51]	212,895	212,895 (171,953 wheeled 29,555 tracklaying 11,387 garden)			0	0
1943 ^[52]^[53]	143,489	143,489 (105,248 wheeled 29,453 tracklaying 8,788 garden)		43	0	0
1944 ^[54]	310,990	310,990 (249,131 wheeled 44,860 tracklaying 16,999 garden)		Allis-Chalmers Case Cletrac Holt International Harvester McCormick	0	0
1945 ^[55]	261,227	261,227 (222,966 wheeled 11,502 tracklaying 26,759 garden)		35+6+20	0	0
1946 ^[56]	364,725	364,725		45	0	0
1947 ^[57]	578,048	578,048		57	0	0
1948 ^[58]	678,141	678,141		85	0	0
1949 ^[59]	676,996	676,996		131	0	0

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