Monarch

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Monarch 75 crawler at the
Heidrick Ag History Center,
Woodland, California, USA in 2005.

The Monarch Tractor Co.

The Monarch Tractor Co. was formed in 1913 at Watertown, Wisconsin, and soon afterwards introduced two models of small crawler tractor, the 10-6 "Lightfoot" and the 20-12 "Neverslip". In 1919 the company added a larger 30-18 "Neverslip" model to its product range, and this was soon followed in the 1920s by several other models of heavyweight crawler with enclosed engine compartments and operator cabs. Allis-Chalmers purchased the Monarch company in 1928 and continued to crawlers production, firstly as the Monarch Tractors Division and then under the Allis-Chalmers name.