175 Years of CASE Construction Equipment

1964 1969 Controlling interest in CASE introduces the rst- Case is purchased by of-its-kind power-tilting dozer Kern County Land Co. blade. An innovation that of San Francisco. greatly increases productivity, Three years later, in operators no longer needed to stop and get off the 1967 machine to wrestle with Kern County Land Co. the heavy blade. Blade is purchased by 1941 1957 adjustments could now be Company, During WWII CASE manufactured , CASE acquires the American accomplished from the 2007 making Case a wholly munitions and airplane parts in support Company (ATC), maker of small crawler operator’s seat. CNH Industrial starts a long- 2017 1912 of the U.S. Military and its Allies. Eleven tractors marketed as TerraTrack, and owned subsidiary of standing partnership with Habitat CASE Construction 1863-65 CASE begins to market and different CASE models totaling more than of cially enters the crawler business. Tenneco. for Humanity by raising funds 2015 Equipment donates Old Abe rst appears as the manufacture road-building equipment. 15,000 tractors were put to work in , Engineers from the two companies 1994 and building homes in the U.S. CNH Industrial continues CONEXPO-CON/AGG company’s mascot on a thresher. Inspired by the world’s new interest the Paci c and North Africa. Others were quickly join forces to create the world’s CASE enters an agreement To date (through 2016), the its long-standing support of booth materials to 1842 Abe, a real American , was 1906 in motorized vehicles, CASE developed sent to Britain as part of the Lend-Lease rst factory-integrated tractor with Sumitomo Heavy company and its Foundation has United Way. Together, the Habitat for Humanity J.I. Case Company founded by the mascot of Company C of Realizing the need for better roads, a complete line of road-building Program. Many of these tractors were /: the 320. Still today, 1974 Industries to make donated nearly $500,000 to the company and its employees and, as a result, 100% Jerome Increase Case to build the First Regiment CASE begins building large, equipment, including graders, steam Industrial (construction) models with the backhoe stands as a agship CASE acquired the French construction for the North non-pro t, along with employee donated more than $924,000 of the booth is recycled, threshing machines in Wisconsin. during the Civil War. steam-powered road rollers. rollers, rock crushers and dump wagons. military-speci c modi cations. product of the company. equipment company, Poclain American market. volunteer hours. just in 2015. reused or donated. 1840 1860 1880 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

1869-70 1876 1907 1910 1924 1947 1957 1967 1969 1978 1988 1999 2005 2017 CASE enters the steam CASE builds the rst self- J. I. Case goes public and CASE acquires the Pierce Motor Co. and CASE promotes the role of its CASE creates the Industrial CASE develops the rst CASE begins to CASE acquires the CASE forms a 50/50 joint CASE is recognized was acquired CASE makes its CASE proudly celebrates engine business with propelled traction begins selling stock. starts building luxury automobiles. tractors and equipment in the Division. This precursor to the unit-type wheel loader. manufacture and market Uni-Loader Division of venture with by Fortune magazine by and merged with 500,000th the 175th anniversary of Old No.1, an engine built for highway work. It receives the road construction boom. CASE Construction Equipment Division Based on a market research articulated loaders. With Universal Industries and Engine Company called that its loader/backhoe New Holland N.V., forming loader/backhoe its founding by J.I. Case on a wagon frame. Gold Medal for Excellence was now producing the CI and LI was part of a strategic plan to study commissioned by the introduction of the begins the production of Consolidated Diesel was one of the “100 CNH (now CNH Industrial). in 1842. Replacing the work of in Philadelphia. model tractors. The “I” stood build complementary products to CASE in 1954, the company W26, CASE began making skid steer loaders. Company or CDC. Products America horses, these engines for industrial. Years later, the offset the seasonal nature of the introduced the “W” line of articulated wheel loaders. Production of this equipment Makes Best.” were used to power a company would form an Industrial farm product line. 4WD Terraload’rs. This Unlike today’s wheel began in Burlington, Iowa, sweep, as well as provide Division that would eventually series of rigid frame loaders loaders these early models but later moved to Wichita, power for threshing become the Construction with steerable axles ranged had the operator riding with Kansas, where it continues machines. Equipment Division. in size from the small W-5 the front half of the vehicle. today. + = to the much larger W-12.