Cummins Cleaner Truck Engine Fuels Overseas Sales, Market Share

[AKaiser]

Bloomberg.com: U. S.

 

[Dieselnut59]

WOW! Interesting story! And I am glad to see OUR company is the one doing it! I am glad Cummins sticks to ONE thing and does it the BEST. No other company is strictly an ENGINE company. Cummins builds the entire package, then sells it (including engine, fuel system, computer, air management and aftertreatment) to the vehicle manufacturer. It works!

 

[AKaiser]

Actually, IH did many things well...

WOW! Interesting story! And I am glad to see OUR company is the one doing it! I am glad Cummins sticks to ONE thing and does it the BEST. No other company is strictly an ENGINE company. Cummins builds the entire package, then sells it (including engine, fuel system, computer, air management and aftertreatment) to the vehicle manufacturer. It works!

IHC was a pretty solid company (other than financially) except their financial situation caused them to delay introduction of certain key advances in their line. They had some failures (a few gas and diesel V-motors, like the PowerJokes are based on, and the V8 in the 1468 and 1568 tractors) and some major successes, like the DT466/530/570, which is still one of the best selling engines. Of course, if you buy an International truck or bus, it comes with an International engine (medium lines).



IH had one of the best full lines of Ag Equipment, holding a strong No 2 to JD, having fallen hard from No 1. in the 1960s. In 1977 it brought out an advanced grain harvesting machine, using a long single longintudinal rotor instead of a short transverse mounted cylinder and concave. The new machine was both much faster, and easier on the grain, which also came out into the grain tank with less "trash. " It took JD about 15 years to come up with a competitive rotary design. Of course, between CaseIH, Gleaner (Allis Chalmers aka AGCO), Massey (part of AGCO now, got the White rotary years ago), and New Holland, all the best rotary ideas at the time were taken, and JD was probably selling more combines using conventional cylinders than any other manufacturer was selling rotaries.



Deere claimed it had the best disk harrow, but it wasn't a few years after IH brought out the new disks (early 80s) that Deere said their center fold disk was better than, that the IH knock-off disk came out with folding wings.



IH was in financial troubles that ended up all but bankrupting it, causing it to sell off everything but the truck and engine divisions, which were the only money makers left. Those troubles likely had a chilling effect on bringing out new technology. Even so, the IH tractor transmissions brought out in the large 2wd line in the early 80s live on today in the current CaseIH offerings, albeit much more advanced electronically controlled full powershift versions. The first new tractor brought out by CaseIH used a full powershift version of the "Synchro-Tri-Six" IH transmission. Case Corp didn't have as advanced a design, though they had a powershift transmission several years before IH. Case basically inherited a modern full-line farm equipment manufacturer with full R&D capacity. About the only thing about the CaseIH tractors that wasn't IH, other than the sheet metal, was the engine, which was to be understood, as Case had been working with Cummins for years. IHC's problem wasn't that it tried to do too many things (though it did have that problem way back) but bad management, (financial and otherwise,) carryover from the post-Vietnam recession, and high labor costs (sound familiar?)



Here's an interesting article about IHC from NYT in 1982 that involves Cummins engines. COMPANY NEWS; Layoffs for 300 At Harvester - New York Times



Navistar International: Information from Answers.com



Yes, I bleed IHC red. Why do they say "Nothing Runs Like a Deere?" because Deere always run when they see Red.

 

[HBarlow]

A good article. I was not aware how well Cummins is doing. Good for them. I hope they continue to enjoy great success.



Harvey