International Harvester had been formed in 1902 with the merger between the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Deering Harvester Company, and three smaller agricultural equipment firms: Milwaukee Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Company, and the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner Company of Springfield, Ohio which had formerly been the Lagonda Agricultural Works of Warder, Brokaw & Child.
Both McCormick and Deering had their network of dealers and loyal customers so IH produced separate lines of tractors to keep both happy.
International had introduced the Mogul 8-16 for the McCormick buyers in 1914 and then replaced it with the smaller, more advanced Junior 8-16 in 1917. The Junior 8-16 featured an engine enclosed under a hood and the first commercially successful PTO.
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For the Deering customers, IH produced the Titan 10-20. As was common at the time, the Titan’s engine was started on gasoline and then when warm it would be switched over to kerosene. Water injection was used to prevent pre-ignition.
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