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INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS IN THE UK PART 2

he years 1919-20 were good for the company, however prices came tumbling down as the mass produced and cheaper 1917 Fordson MOM and F took hold across the world, particularly in the early 1920s. In the USA and also in Europe to stay competitive with the Detroit and Irish-built ‘F menace’ a Hamilton plough was part of the heavily discounted IHC Titan package, of which remarkably 78,363 had been built when production finally finished in 1922. It has to be said the IHC range by then was rather old-fashioned if you compare a Titan 10-20

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