Where Were The Allis Chalmers Factories Located?
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2023
- A company as big as Allis Chalmers needed a lot of factories to build their many products. Since we covered their West Allis headquarters in a previous video its only fair that the other factories get their moment in the spotlight. This is a brief summary each of the main Allis Chalmers factories.
Special Thanks to Austin M. Frederick for the article about the Lexington South Carolina Plant.
Check out his Allis Chalmers History Site at: theweekendhistorian.com/
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If you get bored and want to find a piece of AC history, the Electro Motive Division "SW-1" locomotive that switched the West Allis plant (the yellow locomotive you see in this and your West Allis tour video), was later sold to Northern Rail Car in Cudahy WI, later to a grain elevator, and now is located at the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad in Trego, WI. It was operational, but is currently not used. It's still painted as Northern Rail Car, in maroon paint.
Great to see Essendine getting a mention. Before that plant was up and running there was an assembly plant at Totton near Southampton, I own a 1947 B it has a "B" serial number in the US range but with a crudely stamped "E" in front of it, from 1948 Knocked down kits from the US were assembled at Totton so it must be one of the early ones put together there.
I think the Allis Chalmers Laporte plant also had a EMD switcher till they shutdown. I got laid off in July of 82. My best job in my life.
Thank you so very much for this!! I graduated high school back in '92 about 45mi east of the KC area (Independence). As I type this, I'm so angry with myself for being such a dipsh*t. But all through high school, during FFA week, we'd go to the National Convention held in KC. We'd also tour the Gleaner plant! I didn't appreciate it or care one bit about the tour. Looking back? I wish I'd have paid more attention or appreciate the fact that the F's, N's and R- series were right there. Thank you so much for this video!
I worked at the Allis Chalmers factory in Newcastle Australia between 1966-1970. Road graders, screens and crushers where built there
I was actually pondering where all the factories were a few months ago. Thanks for making this!
Allis Chalmers also had a nuclear division that built a power plant in Sioux Falls, SD in 1959. It was called the pathfinder. Interesting history.
It’s amazing as large as they were they didn’t live on like Deer or New Holland
Company I worked for built a couple new plants in the mid 80's. All were equipped with Allis electric forklifts. We ran them 24/7 for twenty years. Never had any major issues with them.
The Alis Chalmers plant in Cedar Rapids Iowa was purchased in the 1960s by Harnischfeger where they produced P&H cranes.
When I was a boy my neighbor retired from the Norwood, Ohio Allis Chalmers plant. I've got a small badge (sign ) from one of the pumps.
Great collection of AC plant history!
Thank you for the great video. My dad worked for little while at the LaPorte plant.
Always great when post a video. Thank you J and L
Excellent video my Allis Chamlers tractor rough terrain forklift was built in Topeka Kansas the tag says
The video is making my miss my youth and the mechanics who were a generation older
Excellent video. A few added items. After Simplicity moved out of the Lexington SC plant, the Matteson IL AC lift truck plant moved electric lift truck mfg and assembly into the 100,000 Sq ft plant. Mfg continued in Lexington until 1980 when it was moved back to Matteson. It was a really nice plant and a great place to work. (I was tasked to shut it down). AC Built front end loaders in the Lachine Que plant for some time and moved production back to Matteson in about 1979. AC had a Power Breaker Division plant in Jackson Mississippi, it was at least 150,000 Sq ft, I attended a Mfg Engineering Conference there in 1977.
Excellent video...👍
The Topeka Kansas plant built a variety of industrial equipment. The West Allis plant built a number of "skid" power trains, painted them yellow and shipped them to Topeka as the base for front end loaders, bucket trucks, backhoes, etc. I recall one of these videos has a trailer load of yellow power trains coming out of the main gate.
Interesting.... I never knew much about Allis Chalmers. My grandpa used to sell the forklifts in the St. Louis area.