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Operating from 1847 to 1999, the Allis-Chalmers Corporation was one of Milwaukee's key manufacturing giants and for a time the city's largest employer, producing what one historian describes as "the 'big stuff' for America's expanding urban and industrial markets.". Allis-Chalmers originated in James Seville and Charles Decker's ...





In 1901, Allis-Chalmers was formed by merging the Edward P. Allis Co., Fraser and Chalmers Company and Gates Iron Works. Wanting to diversify, Allis-Chalmers built its first farm tractor in 1914. The tractor business grew, and in 1928 a line of crawler tractors was started. And when Allis-Chalmers decided to focus on the small and medium sized ...







1901. In a three-way merger, Edward P. Allis, Fraser and Chalmers, and Gates Iron Works are combined to form the Allis-Chalmers Company. 1902. A new Allis-Chalmers factory opens just West of Milwaukee Wisconsin. The area is soon renamed West Allis. This same site will be the company's home for the next 80 years. Next Page.









By 1916, Allis-Chalmers employed over 8,000 men, with branches in ten American cities as well as four international locations. The company ran into financial difficulties in the 1980s and was forced to sell many of its business lines. Allis-Chalmers closed its doors for good in 1999, just under 140 years after E.P. Allis' first foray into ...




