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The Farmall 60 series tractors are general-purpose row-crop tractors that replaced the larger models of the Farmall letter series beginning in 1958. Produced from 1958 to 1963, the Farmall 460 and 560 tractors represented a modernization of the Farmall H and Farmall M respectively, with higher-horsepower 6-cylinder engines in a restyled body.
The company manufactures tractors under the brand names Farmtrac, Powertrac, and Steeltrac. [12] The first Escorts tractors were produced in 1961 based on Ursus license. [ 13 ] In 1969, a partnership with Ford was set up to produce licensed Ford tractors for India.
The tractors' final drives, which were essentially made up of unaltered Letter Series components, (the 460 carried over from the model H, the 560 did the same from the model M), failed rapidly under the stress of the more powerful 60 series tractor engines. IH's competitors took advantage of the recall, and IH lost customers in the ensuing months.
In 1977, KHIC (Korea Heavy Industries & Construction Co.) begins the production of tractors in collaboration with Fiat at the Gunpo plant. In 1983, Goldstar Heavy Industries (LS Mtron) acquired KHIC's agricultural machinery division. [5] Currently, LS Mtron has 4 factories in South Korea, Brazil, China and U.S. [6]
The 60 series was a four-cylinder follow-on to the six-cylinder Oliver 70. As the 70 was outsold by the less-expensive Farmall A, Allis-Chalmers Model B and John Deere Model B, Oliver introduced the 60 to compete. The 60 was followed by the Oliver 66, Super 66 and 660, each with incremental changes and upgrades, and was produced until 1964.
The green of Oliver, red of Cockshutt and yellow of Minneapolis-Moline tractors was replaced by the silver tractors of White's Field Boss line. The Field Boss models in approximate order of introduction are as follows: 4-150 (The 4 indicates four wheel drive and the 150 is the power take-off horsepower) 2-105, 2-150 4-180, 2-50, 2-60, 2-70, 2 ...