In my hometown in eastern Nebraska, dad (who graduated high school in 1957) can recall there being dealers in town for Ford, Oliver, John Deere, International Harvester, and Massey Harris/Massey Ferguson. The Massey dealer is all that remains, and they do very little in farm equipment business; most of their business is in the lawn and garden area.
I can recall the JD dealer; they went out in the early 70's. I know from others the IH dealer went out in the late 60's (I'm not quite old enough to remember them, but don't believe I missed them by much). The rest were well gone before my time.
The Ford dealer was also a filling station/petroleum distributor. Oliver was sold out of an elevator/fertilizer dealership. The Massey dealer was originally in with a Chevrolet dealership (but is a stand alone business now). All the other dealerships were stand alone businesses.
Oh, and there was a Minneapolis-Moline dealer in the much smaller town one town over. They ended up being a New Holland dealer; they went out in the mid-1980's, I attended the sale. No Allis dealer close by that I'm aware of.
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