Case CC Racine, WI 1937 The Case Corporation was a large manufacturer of construction and agricultural equipment. Founded by Jerome I. Case as in the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company, it operated under that name for the better part of a century before changing its name to the J.I. Case Company. In the late 19th century Case was one the success of the very popular flexible the wheels; allowing the rear tread to of America’s largest builders of steam Farmall. Case had to respond, and be adjusted from 48 to 84 inches in 4 engines; producing self-propelled quick. inch increments when combined with portable engines, traction engines reversing the rear wheel position. and steam tractors. Case was also a Enter the engineering team of David major producer of threshing machines Davies and Robert Henrickson. Davies This engineering breakthrough allowed and other harvesting equipment. In had started with Case as a 16 year-old farmers to be able to narrow the CC’s the 20th century CASE was among Welsh immigrant working his way up tread for plowing and later lengthen the top ten largest builders of farm through the company to the position the axle for row-crop cultivation. Case tractors. However, in 1950 construction of Vice President of Engineering. stated in their advertisements that “This equipment became Case’s primary Hendrickson had come to Case from new Case tractor is really two tractors focus with agricultural business second. Wallis Tractor where he and Clarence in one, adaptable to every farm power Eason had innovated the first tractor operation.” Case’s corporate entities and brands with a unit-frame, an approach still used changed repeatedly in the 1980s and in tractor fabrication today. Variations of the Model CC included 90s. Now the name Case lives on high-clearance, wide-row for bedded in two CNH brands: Case CE from This dynamic duo knew that they had crops; narrow tread for vineyards and “Construction Equipment”, which to outdo IHC and their new Farmall sugar cane; the Florida Special for is the world’s third largest brand of Regular by creating a row-crop tractor orchard work; and a high-crop cane construction equipment, and Case IH, that would catch the farmer’s attention. tractor. which is the world’s second largest Their brainchild, the Case Model CC, brand of agricultural equipment. did that and much more. The Model The Model CC was the first row crop CC was rated at nearly 18 horsepower, tractor produced by the Case Company. The Case Model CC was the row-crop offering twice that of the Farmall It was manufactured for ten years from version on the standard model C. The Regular yet weighted the same. The 1929 through 1939. During this period Model CC was released in response extra weight of a larger engine in the CC around 30,000 tractors were produced. to the introduction of the IHC’s was offset by the fact that the tractor’s The most productive year was 1936 revolutionary Farmall Regular in 1924, axles came straight out of the rear where over 7,000 tractors rolled off which sent manufactures into a mad transmission case. The Farmall, on the the assembly line. In 1939, the last year scramble to come up with a row-crop other hand, employed a much heavier of production, you could take home a machine of their own. drop rear axle design. steel-wheeled Model CC for $975. Case had been the king of horsepower The Model CC’s rear axle also featured The CC Case was one of 12 tractors for decades, first dominating the an advance unseen on tractors up to chosen as the greatest of their time in steam traction engine market, then this time, the ability to readily adjust its a survey published in the August 1990 as an early innovator in the internal rear tread width. Davies and Hendricks issue of Successful Farming. Incidentally, combustion tractor market. But their came up with a system that allowed Loren Simmons of White, South Dakota market share had slipped precipitously, 2, 10 or 12 inch long extension spools won the National Plowing Contest in starting with the massive popularity of to be bolted to either side of the axle 1988 using a CC Case tractor and a the inexpensive Fordson and then with on the same flange that supported Centennial Case Plow. Creating an Environment for Inspiring Human Potential www.jacksurbanmeetingplace.org.