Combines 9700 White

[Shadow]

Yup! Massey bought the patent but they changed a few things like the brakes [they had a nasty habit of failing when you went down a hill] Ron

 

[Illinois_Gleaner]

So what was the last combine that MF actually

 

[Greg]

It was the 8590.

 

[Massey_Man]

Yes Massey bought the patent from White in 85.With the remaining inventory of 9720 at the time they redecaled them.They held back production until late 86 of the smaller 8560,White never did come out with this one.later they released the 8590 which they beefed up with the year off from the 9720.They never made another model until 1990 with the release of the 8570.I don't know for sure what Massey paid for White but it was basicly for peanuts,White owed Massey so much money they tooked them just to get the bill cleared up.

 

[John]

But Massey is the GREATEST and biggest farm company in the universe. Can't they do anything by themselves without having to use an AGCO design since AGCO is of no use to them according to you.

 

[allen]

well john when u are owned by agco is would be kinda hard to to think about it to get rid of agco. when u got ac people running the show it is kinda hard to use the massey design being the good one, if it was massey people running the show they would be in better shape because they would have been using the MF designs. allen

 

[SilverTurnedGreen]

Massey actually engineered a similar combine to the White 9700, called the TX903. It was similar to BUT NOT IDENTICAl to the White 9700. It merely made it to the prototype stage, but never went into production due to poor finances and potential patent infringements with White. White's rotary technology was sold to Massey, which in turn was sold to Vicon Farm Equipment and linamar Corporation from Guelph, Ontario who cooperatively formed Western Combine Corporation. The new Massey combines are based on the prototype White 9500 combine, which made it to the prototype stage before White shut down. Edgar S. Martin Equipment from Wallenstein, Ontario bought one of the prototypes for scrap from the White Receivers, on condition that he was to never sell the machine as a whole good, since their never was a parts book published for the White 9500.