| International Truck
In 1902, the merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the Deering Harvester Company, along with three smaller Champion brand agricultural equipment manufacturers, resulted in the formation of the International Harvester Company (IH) of Chicago, Illinois. Over the next three quarters of a century this evolved to become a diversified manufacturer of farming equipment, construction equipment, gas turbines, trucks, buses, and supporting parts supplies. In the mid-1980s the Ag economy experienced hard times and took International Harvester down with it. IH began selling off its many business divisions in an effort to survive. The Construction Equipment Division was sold to Dresser Industries; Solar (gas turbines) Division was sold to Caterpillar; Cub Cadet (lawn and garden equipment) was sold to MTD Products and the Agricultural Division was sold to Tenneco who merged it with their JI Case subsidiary . After the Ag Division sale in 1985, all that remained of IH was the Truck and Engine Divisions. In 1986 the company became Navistar International Corporation. The International Harvester name and IH logo were assets of the Agricultural Division and were part of the sale to Tenneco; the IH name and logo are still in use being incorporated into the Case IH brand name. IH had used the International brand in its agricultural, construction and truck product lines and the brand name continues on in product lines of Navistar International's International Truck subsidiary. International Truck makes the largest pickup truck available to the non-commercial market.
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