The Forgotten Tractor Brand That White Erased: The Cockshutt Story
The world's first production tractor with a live power take-off is not built by John Deere. It is not built by International Harvester, Ford, Allis-Chalmers, or Massey-Ferguson. It is built in a Canadian foundry town most Americans have never heard of, by a brand most Canadians under fifty have never heard of either. The town is Brantford, Ontario. The brand is Cockshutt. And the erasure is deliberate. This is the story of a company that exists for eighty-five years, employs nearly six thousand workers at its peak, beats every American giant to a major tractor innovation, and is dismantled by a single American buyer between nineteen sixty-two and nineteen seventy-seven. To understand the erasure, start with the world before the company exists. It is the eighteen seventies. The Canadian government has just passed the Dominion Lands Act of eighteen seventy-two, opening the prairies to homestead. One hundred and sixty acres of grassland for a ten dollar fee and a promise to break the land within three years. Hundreds of thousands of settlers move west. They carry American plows.
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