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Capitol Confidential ^ | 1/27/2012 | Jack Spencer

[editor-surveyor]

>> “but it came into Indianapolis to pick up a load of diabetic testing supplies, one of the high ticket items with increasing worldwide demand.” <<

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Somewhat of an understatement.

There is a severe shortage of those supplies in the entire western world. It seems that our sugar, pasta, margarine, and polyunsaturated oil diets are making people diabetics faster than the manufacturers can make the test units and supplies.

[Mr. Lucky]

Well, actually Mahalasville, but I didn’t want to brag none.

[Spktyr]

Nope. It’s still the same company:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navistar_International

[muawiyah]

You can ignore the $382 per share drop to $8.50 if you want, and the sale of major assets such as the agricultural implements operations, and the fact it'd been America's 4th largest company BEFORE the McCardle period if you want, but today it's simply not the same company, particularly when you have the successor to DAF, formerly a small Harvester owned subsidiary in Nederland now involved as a major "partner".

The merger of Case with the former Harvester ag division is also a pretty serious change.

Even when I worked there, in the 60's, we had a deal with Ford when it came to diesel. You'd be running parts today under IH and tomorrow under Ford but they were the same parts.

Shenanigans with the stocks also tell everybody "it ain't the same place".

[muawiyah]

Improved diagnostics

[editor-surveyor]

Diagnostics haven’t changed in any meaningful way in 50 years. Electronics are faster, but the bottom line is still the same.

More people are becoming Type 2 at younger ages, and even needing amputations in their early teens, not their 60s.
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[Spktyr]

You can count all of that in if you like.

It doesn’t change the fact that the company selling trucks with the “International” badge on the nose today is the same company, in unbroken existence, that sold trucks with the same badge on the nose back them. It isn’t some other entity that took over the old assets and operations, like Southwestern Bell did with AT&T or like Sanyo did with Fisher.

As for the Ford thing - that continued up until 2011. All those Ford PowerStroke diesel pickups had International engines until 2010; not a different company there. In fact, the 1995 F-350 I just picked up has a PowerStroke diesel that is clearly labeled “International” when you lift the hood.

[TSgt]

I love Case tractors so much that I named my firstborn Case!