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The "New Generation of Power" Begins
When William Hewitt took over the reins of the company in 1955, the spirit of innovation continued. Hewitt's "New Generation of Power" featured agricultural products that offered farmers more power and higher productivity. Under Hewitt's leadership, the company entered the consumer products market in 1963, offering lawn and garden tractors, mowers and snow blowers. Innovations for the company from 1955 until Hewitt retired in 1982 included
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| The "New Generation of Power" introduced in 1960 featured products that offered more power and higher productivity to farmers. |
- Combine corn head, introduced in 1955
Bale ejector, 1957
- Planter attachments to apply liquid fertilizer, 1957
- Closed center hydraulics with power brakes and hydrostatic power steering, 1960
- Jet-air boll separator for cotton strippers, 1960
- Self-propelled elevating scraper, 1963
- Power shift transmission, 1964
- Roll-GardU™ and canopy for agricultural tractors, 1967
- All-hydraulic articulated motor grader, 1967
- Plateless planter, 1968
- 4620 tractor with liquid-to-air charge cooling, 1971
- PowerGard™ shielding for power take-off (PTO) drive lines, 1972
- Four-row, self-propelled cotton stripper, 1975
- Four-row cotton picker, 1980
- Crawler with on-board computer, 1980
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