EDWIN NOLT’S BRAINCHILD

Credit is always given to Ed Nolt and his very advanced pickup baler press for saving New Holland, and preventing the company from going under in 1940. Arguably, it was this innovation that led to the Sperry Corporation take-over in 1947, which resulted in an influx of much-needed and very timely investment.

Fast-forward 40 years or so, and it was Ford that acquired the company in 1985, creating Ford New Holland. In fact, the operation continues to this day, as part of CNH (Case New Holland).

Back to the beginning

It was all started by the very religious Abram Zimmerman; a clever machinist from New Holland in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who created the New Holland Machine Works, in 1895.

He repaired whatever came by, created a line of feed