Editing Doncaster (section)

===Tractor production===
[[File:Ploughing - geograph.org.uk - 280384.jpg|thumb|Ploughing by tractor]]
In 1930, [[International Harvester]] (IH) started the production of agricultural implements at a factory on Wheatley Hall Road and later at another in the Carr Hill area of Doncaster. The first tractor built at the factory was a [[Farmall M]], which came off the production line on 13 September 1949.<ref>The Roar of Dust and Diesel ''A story of International Harvester Doncaster'', by Mike Teanby, published by Japonica Press (2004), {{ISBN|1-904686-06-0}}</ref> Tractors were initially built from parts shipped from the US. The Wheatley Hall Road factory was extended after the war with a new [[foundry]] to make the heavy castings. The factory started Crawler tractor production in 1953. By 1960, the factory was making a range of tractors from scratch, designed specifically for British and European markets and sold under the 'McCormick International' name. Assembly moved in 1965 to the Carr Hill plant. In 1983, tractor production was moved to IH's other Doncaster factory at Wheatley Hall. In 1985, International Harvester sold its agricultural division to Tenneco, Inc. which then merged it with its subsidiary J.I. Case to form [[Case IH]], which continued to design and build its European tractor range in Doncaster, but shutting the [[David Brown Ltd.]] tractor factory near [[Huddersfield]]. The 350,000th tractor came off the production line in 1999.

In 2000, the factory was purchased by [[ARGO SpA]], an Italian-based agricultural equipment builder. Doncaster was the sole production site of the [[McCormick Tractors]] brand, and the factory employed around 380 people (although about 1,100 people are employed in the worldwide McCormick group). In December 2006, the parent company, ARGO Spa, announced that the Doncaster facility would close in 2007, with the loss of around 325 jobs. The announcement was made only a week before Christmas. Sixty-one years of tractor production in Doncaster ended in 2007.