91324 “MORE POWER ON THE GROUND” ALLIS CHALMERS TRACTOR PULL CELEBRATION FILM

This 1960’s era movie is called “More Power on the Ground”. It is presented by Allis-Chalmers, Agricultural Division. The film highlights several tractor pulls at county fairs across the United States, with an eye towards promoting A/C tractors. The purpose of the film is to highlight the strength of the different motors in tractors that give farmers and workmen more pull power in their tractors. Tractor pulls are featured throughout the movie. The movie opens with images of a roller coaster and an amusement park. The county fair. Different tractors are shown, :45. People in the crowd watch the tractors in the field, 1:15. Tractor works in the field, 1:30. Man drives to a tractor pull, 1:50. Tractor pulls a sled with people aboard, 2:13. Tractor pulls a full truck, 2:35. Tractor pulls other tractors on a sled, 2:55. Tractor shoots fire, 3:09. Tractor struggles to pull weight, 3:25. Tractor blows a fuel injector pump, 3:50. Tractor works in the field, 4:12. Tractor struggles to pull weight, 4:25. Tractor front end goes in the air, 4:38. More Power on the Ground. Tractor blows black smoke trying to pull large weight, 5:08. Tractor pulls long truck, 5:20. Hot rod class of tractors, 6:00. Specialized tractors pull large sled weights, 6:35. World Series of tractor pulls, National Tractor Pullers Association, Louisville, Kentucky. The contest pulls hundreds of contestants from all over the country. 20,000 fans on each of 2 nights, 7:08. Tractor pulls another tractor, 7:35. Modified tractors compete, 7:55. Barney McKinnon. Trophy is awarded, 8:15. Tractor overheats and dies, 8:35. Large tractor pulls huge weight by Al Arnolds, from Indiana, 8:50. Allis-Chalmers machine, 9:04. Man drives his car, 9:30. Tractor working in field, 9:55. Men looking at different tractors, 10:05. Men talking about buying a new tractor, 10:22. Tractors in National Tractor Pullers Association competition, 10:53.

Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries. Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills. The first Allis-Chalmers Company was formed in 1901 as an amalgamation of the Edward P. Allis Company (steam engines and mill equipment), Fraser & Chalmers (mining and ore milling equipment), the Gates Iron Works (rock and cement milling equipment), and the industrial business line of the Dickson Manufacturing Company (engines and compressors). It was reorganized in 1912 as the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company. During the next 70 years its industrial machinery filled countless mills, mines, and factories around the world, and its brand gained fame among consumers mostly from its farm equipment business’s orange tractors and silver combine harvesters. In the 1980s and 1990s a series of divestitures transformed the firm and eventually dissolved it. Its successors today are Allis-Chalmers Energy and AGCO.