New Holland red/yellow livery

[Dave W]

just out of idle curiosity, why are some new Holland machines red and some yellow?
Balers are particularly noticeable but it doesn’t seem to be age related.

 

[Still Farming]

They like keeping you on your toes ?
All CNN Global but like to keep all separate as Case and Ford but machinery colour revamps all the time.
Some expert will say soon ?

 

[Boohoo]

I thought it was age related although a Ford fan will probably correct me. Red for Sperry New Holland, then yellow for Ford New Holland and then back to red under Fiat ownership.

 

[Dave W]

I thought it was age related although a Ford fan will probably correct me. Red for Sperry New Holland, then yellow for Ford New Holland and then back to red under Fiat ownership.

Not sure about age. Early balers were red then there were the yellow ones but a neighbour has a late 90’s red baler.
Found balers also seem to fluctuate even more between red and yellow. Newest ones seemingly available in both

 

[Rob Holmes]

American markets seem to like red/yellow, i was under impression it for European markets it was red/yellow, then changed to yellow to match harvesting brand

 

[Boohoo]

Not sure about age. Early balers were red then there were the yellow ones but a neighbour has a late 90’s red baler.
Found balers also seem to fluctuate even more between red and yellow. Newest ones seemingly available in both

Forgot that they're back to yellow now, maybe like that since the formation of CNH? Late 90s red conventional baler will be a 570 or 575? Earlier 900 series were yellow and the 300 series before that were red. Not much in the way of New Holland machinery around here now, their double chops were popular at a time.

 

[Lincsman]

Proper New Holland was red with yellow wheels and other bits, Clayson was always just yellow, but then got white wheels to match the tractors. I think all harvesting stuff went yellow when it became CNH but there were variations maybe where is was made as USA (home of New Holland) still seems red?

 

[TripleSix]

I bought this NOS badge the other day.
From the local Case dealer that used to be a Massey dealer.

It's from a Ford 600 apparently...

 

[bobk]

The combines have always been yellow .

 

[cfr1964]

Sperry New Holland introduced yellow balers , foragers etc before Ford took over, maybe to create a standard look in the product line but this was only in Europe, in the US balers and all hay machinery stayed red
A couple of years after Ford took over the 500 series square balers and 835 /865 round balers were introduced and production was moved to the US so it was probably more efficient to just have 1 colour scheme
As far as I know the yellow colour scheme was reintroduced to differentiate from the very similar Case IH balers

 

[Red Fred]

I think our yellow 945 baler dates from 1983 . It replaced the red and yellow 1979 hayliner.
We used to have a fair collection of NH stuff back then. A 253 tedder rake, a two drum mower and a rotospreader come to mind, but that was all red and yellow.

 

[bobk]

I've got rid of all my New Holland implements and feel better for it .

 

[Dave W]

I've got rid of all my New Holland implements and feel better for it .

Did I buy any of it?

 

[cfr1964]

I think our yellow 945 baler dates from 1983 . It replaced the red and yellow 1979 hayliner.
We used to have a fair collection of NH stuff back then. A 253 tedder rake, a two drum mower and a rotospreader come to mind, but that was all red and yellow.

We had all that lot too

 

[bobk]

Did I buy any of it?

No , even I wouldn't trade that crap