Allis Chalmers
The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. was incorporated in 1913. The expansion of this company through the acquisition of eight manufacturing concerns, widened the scope of its business to embrace a diversified line of power machinery. Shortly after the beginning of World War I, this company began to manufacture farm tractors. In 1928 it took over the Monarch Tractor Co. incorporated in 1918) and has since manufactured the Monarch (a track-laying type) tractor under the name "Allis-Chalmers." When the Advance-Rumely Co. was acquired in 1931, an agricultural implement company long engaged in the manufacture of threshing machines and farm tractors was added.