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The International Harvester Company (often abbreviated IH or International) was an American manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment, automobiles, commercial trucks, lawn and garden products, household equipment, and more.
International Motors, LLC (formerly Navistar International Corporation) is an American holding company created in 1986. The successor to the International Harvester manufacturing company, International produces trucks and diesel engines under its own brand; [3] the company produces buses under the IC Bus name.
International trucks have been built and sold by the International Harvester Company (renamed Navistar International in 1986) from 1909 until the present (2024). Originally marketed to farmers the trucks were immediately successful and were sold to businesses in cities as well.
The International Harvester Company (IHC) has been building its own proprietary truck engines since the introduction of their first truck in 1907. International tended to use proprietary diesel engines. In the 1970s, IHC built the DVT 573 V-8 diesel of 240 and 260 hp (179 and 194 kW) but these were not highly regarded and relatively few were sold.
It was created in 1985 when Tenneco bought selected assets of the agricultural division from International Harvester and merged it into its J.I. Case Company (IH then became Navistar). Today Case IH is owned by CNH Industrial, an American-Italian corporation.
Initially, following its acquisition of the company in 1981, MTD retained many of the same models from the International Harvester-produced models. One change MTD made was replacing the International Harvester cast-iron rear end with an aluminum rear end. The Cub Cadet Yanmar venture was for the production of four-wheel drive diesel compact ...
SRC was established in 1983 when 13 employees of International Harvester purchased a part of that company that remanufactured truck engines, [3] with $100,000 of their own money and $8.9 million in loans, with the goal of saving 119 jobs. [4] By 1988, SRC's debt to equity ratio was down to 1.8 to 1, and the business had a value of $43 million.
International 1100D (1970) Sold as the 1000 through 1500 D-series, the Light Line pickup was originally offered with four of International Harvester's own V8s, with displacements of 266, 304, 345 or 392 cubic inches. AMC's 232 ci inline-six engine had also been available, since the 1968 C-Series. [4]