The Cockshutt 570 row-crop tractor was built by the
Cockshutt Plow Company, from 1958 to 1960. It succeeded the
Cockshutt 50
The Cockshutt 50 row-crop tractor was a row-crop tractor produced by the Cockshutt Plow Company, from 1953 to 1957. It was the largest of a series of Canadian-produced tractors that started with the Cockshutt 30, and was based on the Cockshutt 4 ...
heavy tractor in the Cockshutt product line, and was capable of pulling five plows. The new tractor was restyled in accordance with the trend toward squared-off lines, compared to earlier Cockshutt offerings.
Description and production
The Cockshutt 570 succeeded the Cockshutt 50 as a heavy row-crop tractor. In accordance with industry trends of the early 1960s, the 570 was styled with squared-off lines by industrial designer
Raymond Loewy
Raymond Loewy ( , ; November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by ''Time'' magazi ...
. The 570 was powered by a
Hercules Engine Company six-cylinder diesel engine with a six-speed transmission. The 570 could be ordered with adjustable wide front wheels, narrow wheels and fixed wide front wheels.
3,100 Cockshutt 570s were built at Cockshutt's
Brantford, Ontario
Brantford ( 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County, but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independ ...
plant from 1958 to 1961.
[Cockshutt 1999. p. 97] Base price in 1958 was CA$3,670, and with options could exceed CA$4,500.
[Cockshutt 1999. p. 103]
570 Super
The Cockshutt 570 Super was introduced in 1961 with a Hercules diesel engine that substantially increased performance.
1,680 570 Supers were built at Brantford in 1961 and 1962.
[Cockshutt 1999. p. 97] The 570 was the last Cockshutt-built tractor.
580
Three prototypes of an even larger tractor, the 580 were built in 1961, just before Cockshutt was taken over by the
White Motor Company, using a six-cylinder Perkins diesel. One example has been preserved and restored.
[Swinford, p. 136]
References
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Raymond Loewy