30 years ago today.

2 Old 2 care · Nov 24, 2014

Do you remember where you were when you heard the news?

30 years ago today, Tenneco purchased International Harvester AG line and merged it with J I Case product line.

I'm literally looking out my office window at what was the site of the Louisville Foundry and assembly facility. It's been gone so long I have a hard time remembering what it looked like.

Alan K · Nov 24, 2014

I remember working in the summer of 1985 at an IH dealer as a mechanic for on the job training. When the first "CaseIH" showed up the bosses wife said "I don't know why they put Case before International....Case was in trouble long before International was". They had been an IH dealer for over 25 or more years. Never really got into IH that much but I do miss seeing those tractors out in the field. All the tractor companies contributed to what we have today.

wisbaker · Nov 24, 2014

That would be fall of 1984, I was working at a travel trailer dealer as a line mechanic while waiting for my application to the US Air Force Officer training school to be approved or denied, I had met one board an was denied as a navigator candidate. Seems it was right before Thanksgiving they called and offered me an appointment to OTS as a Munitions Maintenance Officer candidate which I accepted. The following summer I was traveling from Lackland AFB (OTS) to Lowry AFB near Denver to go to tech school and was driving through a little town in Oklahoma I lived in for a few months and wondered why in the heck there was a red combine at the Case Dealer then I remembered oh yea they're the same now.

Ellis Kinney · Nov 24, 2014

In 1965 I was working construction when IH was adding on to their foundry. Longer runways took out the building I think. Ellis

oldtanker · Nov 24, 2014

I was on my 2nd tour in Germany. Didn't know about till several weeks later when I made a call to my dad.

Someone was asking about pictures of IH milestones on another forum. And while I like IH, them failing wasn't the end of the world. What I'd like to see is a picture of the biggest milestone IH ever had, of someone locking the door for the last time. Just saying......... :twisted: :twisted:

Rick

Dr. Walt · Nov 25, 2014

wisbaker:

You were at Lowry about 8 1/2 years after me. I was there for Aircraft Armament School in the Black Hangar, Dec.'65-Apr.'66 .

Doc :>)

fixerupper · Nov 25, 2014

I don't remember where I was but I do remember the spreading rumors about what dealership would survive and what one would not. In a small town close to me a very well liked hometown Case dealer became a very well liked salesman for the local Deere dealer after the Case dealership was closed. He is still with Deere. He sold me machinery when he was with Case and he has sold me machinery after he moved to Deere. When he retires the Deere dealer will miss him.

Dr. Walt · Nov 25, 2014

Summer of 1969 TENNECO offered me a job as they were just starting their Boraxo Open-Pit Mine in Death Valley, California. Even though I was between jobs, I declined, as I was on a well earned & deserved vacation (in Death Valley). Eight years later TENNECO sold out to American Borate Co. , and I went to work for American Borate in August 1979 as a Top Millwright - Mine Maintenance Mechanic. When the Mine shut down in May 1986, the Mine Manager & I were the last ones out the gate and we chained & padlocked the gates.

Doc :>)

2 Old 2 care · Nov 25, 2014

Runway and taxiway expansion takes in some of what was Harvester Louisville. The exact spot where the foundry was at is now the Fed Ex hub. Most of the overall expansion was because of the UPS World Hub.

My office is very near Fed Ex, part of US Customs inspections, more specifically, USDA inspections.

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