Are lawnmowers built worse than 20 years ago?
Here is a list of who makes (made) what:
(More than you ever wanted to know, but it is interesting to see how things evolved in that industry)...
AGCO outdoor power
Made by Simplicity
AGCO-ALLIS Outdoor Power:
Made By Simplicity
ALLIS-CHALMERS Outdoor Power:
Made By Simplicity
Allis owned Simplicity from 1965 to 1985 Simplicity continued to produce it for Allis after that.
ARIENS CORP:
ARIENS Brand
GRAVELY as of 1982
NATIONAL MOWER as of 2006
LOCKE as of 2006
EVERRIDE as of 2007
GREATDANE as of 2007 prior owned JOHN DEERE
STENS PARTS
BYNORM PARTS
Ariens in the past has made Tractors under the SPERRY NEW HOLLAND name and snow blower and tillers under the JOHN DEERE name as well as snow blowers under the MAC name.
BOLENS:
Prior ownership
BOLENS
FMC
TROY-BILT
MTD as of 2002
CASE:
Bought out COLT in 1964
1983 was sold to Jack INGERSOLL
CRAFTSMAN:
Manufactures of Craftsman products
DAVID BRADLEY
ROPER
MTD
MURRAY
AYP
HUSQVARNA
JOHN DEERE Model Number 750256060
CUB CADET as of 2009
ARIENS
BOBCAT MOWERS
SIMPLICITY
CUB CADET:
I.H. CUB
MTD/CCC
LAWN BOY AND TORO made products in the past under I.H. CUB CADET label snow blowers from TORO and push mowers from LAWNBOY
DEUTZ-ALLIS Outdoor products:
Made by SIMPLICITY
DIXION
Owned By Husqvarna Outdoor Power
DYNAMARK:
Made by AMF & MURRAY
ECONOMY:
OR JIM DANDY & POWER KING
FORD Outdoor power:
Made by JACOBSON,GILSON,SHIBAURA & TORO/WHEELHORSE
.
GIBSON TRACTOR:
GIBSON.
GIERE:
MOUNTAINEER 1&2
GILSON:
GILSON
MONTGOMERY WARDS
LAWN BOY Bought Gilson in 1988
GRAVELY CORP:
Prior Ownership
GRAVELY
STUDEBAKER
Studebaker-Worthington
1982 Sold to Ariens. Currently imports Rapid tractors
HOMELITE:
Prior makers of the Tractor
SIMPLICITY
JACOBSON
Asset sold to JOHN DEERE IN THE 1990S Original name of the JOHN DEERE SABRE was going to be DEERELITE
Currently own by a Korean manufacturing company\
HONDA outdoor power:
HONDA
JOHN DEERE in the 1990S produced certain models under the Honda Label
HONDA lawn tractors now sold overseas not in U.S.
HUSQVARNA former owners ELECTROLUX
Brands produced by HUSQVARNA
HUSQVARNA
ARIENS Lawn & Garden tractors
AYP
CRAFTSMAN
DIXON
POLUAN
POLUAN PRO
WEEDEATER
YAZOO-KEE
JOHANSON
BLACK MAX sold at SAMS CLUB
RYOBI sold at HOMEDEPOT.
INGERSOLL
Prior and current owners
COLT
CASE
JACK INGERSOLL
ROTHBERGER-GROUP
EASTMAN INDUSTRIES as of APRIL 2006
JACOBSON
JACOBSON
TEXTRON
Jacobson Made Tractors Under several labels Here are a Few:
FORD
HOMELITE
MINNEAPOLIS-MOLINE
OLIVER
WHITE Outdoor Prior to MTD Taking Over Production for white in 1975
JOHN DEERE
JOHN DEERE
SABO
SABRE became the L & LA 100 SERIES on a new frame made at JD plant in Tn.
SCOTTS After 1998 made on same frame as Sabre
One Craftsman lawn tractor in 1990s based on saber lawn tractor.
KUBOTA CORP:
KUBOTA
LAWNBOY prior owners and todays owners
LAWNBOY
GISON
TORO as of 1990
MASSEY FERGUSON outdoor power
AMF
SNAPPER
INGERSOLL
SIMPLICITY
MTD BRANDS:
MTD
MTD PRO
BOLENS as of 2001
WHITE OUTDOOR as of 1981
YARDMAN as of 1975
MASSEY-FERGUSON in Europe AS OF 2006
LAWNFLITE
COLUMBIA
TORO tractors as of 2007
TROY-BILT as of 2001
CUB CADET AS OF April 1981.
SCOTTS all wheel steer tractors
MURRAY Prior and todays owners:
MURRAY UNTIL 1993
TOMKINS 1993 TO 2004 Noma products was bought then as well
BRIGGS & STRATTON AS OF 2004 to present
After MTD made Scotts tractor MURRAY made them for HOMEDEPOT until 1998 when JOHN DEERE took over production from the 1999 year
They also produced the STANLY BRAND as well as Dynamark & Noma
NEW HOLLAND outdoor products: produced by
ARIENS
SHIBAURA
TORO/WHEELHORSE
POLUAN & POLAUN PRO produced by
ELECTROLUX/AYP
AS OF 2007 Husqvarna is the parent company
POWER KING produce by and produced for
(JIM DANDY/ECONOMY)
POWERKING produced Garden tractors for SNAPPER IN THE MID TO LATE 1990S
ASSESTS OF POWER KING where bought by YAZOO-KEY
YAZOO-KEY Assests Bought by Husqvarna
ROPER brands produced
ROPER
CRAFTSMEN
RALLY
POULAN
HUSQVARNA
BECAME AYP IN the late 1980S after ROPER's Outdoor Power equipment Division was Bought by Electrolux in 1988
Now under Husqvarna label.
SABO: Made by
JOHN DEERE IN Germany on the SABRE frame orange is the color
SABRE made by
JOHN DEERE ON late 1980s and early 1990s STX & GT275 FRAMES transitioned to the L100 frame last year of production
SCOTTS made by
MTD
MURRAY
JOHN DEERE
SIMPLICITY:
Owned by
SIMPLICITY until 1965 when ALLIS-CHALMERS bought then until 1985
SIMPLICITY 1985 until 2006
BRIGGS & STRATTON 2006 TO PREASENT
BRANDS MADE AND UNDER SIMPLICITY CURRENT AND NON CURRENT
ALLIS-CHALMERS
DEUTZ-ALLIS
AGCO-ALLIS
AGCO
MASSEY FREGUSON
HOMELITE
MONTGOMERY WARDS
SNAPPER
FERRIS.
SNAPPER made by and for
SNAPPER
MASSEY-FERGUSON
POWER KING made garden tractor for them in late 1990s
2004 SIMPLICITY BOUGHT SNAPPER
2006 BRIGGS & STRATTON BOUGHT THEM ALL
SPEEDEX Came from the same Family(POND Family) that Developed Wheel Horse
owned By:
Harold Pond
Sold To Maury Foote and Jerry Stowe
General Combustion
Trans Tech International, Ltd.
STEINER: MADE BY AND owned by
STEINER SOLD IN 1990S TO TEXTRON
JACOBSON
0WNED BY TEXTRON UNTIL MID 2000S
Now owned by Commercial Grounds Care, Inc: WHO ALSO MAKE BOBCAT MOWERS.
TORO: corp. owns the following brands or rights to them
WHEELHORSE bought from AMC in 1989 prior to late 1970s it was its own company
GILSON Bought by Toro in 1989
LAWN BOY
EXMARK
They also produce tractors for FORD,FORD/NEW HOLLAND & NEW HOLLAND
Since 2007 MTD makes the TORO lawn and garden tractors
TROY-BILT owned by and tractor made
GARDEN WAY until 2001
Since 2001 owned by MTD
Bought Bolens in the late 1980s
VENTRAC:
Made by founding family of STEINIER when they became dissatisfied with the way TEXTRON was handling STEINER. The company is currently called VENTURE PRODUCTS and the attachment from both STEINER and VENTRAC are interchangeable
WALKER: brands they produce and some of there customers
WALKER
EXMARK.
WHEELHORSE: PARENT COMPANIES
WHEELHORSE
AMERICAN MOTORS CORP(AMC)
TORO.
WHITE OUTDOOR owners
Owned by MTD since 1981
YARDMAN owners
Owned by MTD since 1975