AGCO purchased White in 1991 and produced tractors under the latter's name until 2001. The Minneapolis-Moline brand name was dropped by White in 1974, six years before White folded.
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The purchase also included the workers pension fund which White absorbed as an asset and hundreds lost all of their pension contributions plus the matching amounts. Motec was acquired in 1963 by the White Motor Company who also owned the Oliver brand. Minneapolis-Moline tractors became a subsidiary of Motec. In the 1960's Minneapolis-Moline reorgonized under the name Motec.
In 1951 Minneapolis-Moline acquired the BF Avery & Sons farm equipment company. Both tractors were too expensive for the British market and after poor sales, production stopped in 1949. After World War II, the company would have to deal with strikes and pension disputes.īetween 19 the company offered two tractors assembled in Great Britain, the UDS which appeared in 1946 with a price of £1,050 and the Meadows diesel powered UDM which was introduced in 1948 with a price of £1,200. However, this did not mean peaceful labor relations in the years to come. This was a notable defection that foreshadowed the collapse of the open-shop movement in Minneapolis. However, it signed a contract with the AFL Machinists Union in 1935, during the Flour City Ornamental Iron strike and after the 1934 Teamster's Strikes, both of which were notable for their violence. Minneapolis-Moline inherited MSM's CA membership and attitude. MSM refused, starting a court battle that would not be fully resolved until the 1940s. During World War I, the unions agreed to not strike to aid the war effort, in exchange the National War Labor Board ordered wage hikes for workers. It was a member of the Citizen's Alliance (CA), a powerful Minneapolis business league that kept the city largely union free for over 20 years. MSM, the largest of the merged companies, had been a leader in the anti– labor union ( open shop) movement.
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