In 1879, the company moved to Toronto and it soon became one of the city's leading employers. Daniel Massey's son, Hart Massey, renamed the enterprise the Massey Manufacturing Co. The company made some of the world's first mechanical threshers, at first by assembling parts from the United States, but eventually designing and building its own equipment. In 1847, Daniel Massey established the Newcastle Foundry and Machine Manufactory in what is now Newcastle, Ontario. Illustration of the Massey factory in Newcastle, Ontario, circa 1879 Massey-Harris logo, c. before it was acquired by AGCO, the new owner of its former competitor Allis-Chalmers.
The company transferred its headquarters in 1991 to Buffalo, New York, U.S. It was based in Toronto, then Brantford, Ontario, Canada, until 1988. The company was established in 1953 through the merger of farm equipment makers Massey-Harris of Canada and the Ferguson Company of the United Kingdom. Massey Ferguson Limited is a Canadian-British agricultural machinery manufacturer.
