Posted by GreenEnvy on December 26, 2013 at 17:49:52 from (216.220.12.96):
In Reply to: Re: J.I. Case Legacy posted by dboll on December 26, 2013 at 17:38:06:
Looking from the outside it looked to me like Case was short of R&D money. You already mentioned the DCs. Their early self propelled combines IMO were sort of a joke. All they did was throw a seat and steering wheel on their pull type combine and on the wrong side to boot. The SP 12 looks like a farmer hacked job thrown together out behind his shed. And then the Case 500. Yes it was probably the most advanced tractor in its power class but it was also just a LA with the diesel. So why couldn't that been out 3-5 years before it was? That had to have been tough selling an LA against diesel tractors on the wheat plains. JD on the other hand just because of their 2 cylinder philosophy had to create their diesel the R from the ground up. I bet they spend more money in 1 or 2 years on that project then Case did on the 500 total.
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