Home of White Farm Equipment Canada: Cockshutt Factory Visit

Down near Brantford for a cattle show and had to stop by the home of Cockshutt and White Farm Equipment Canada. Decided to get some video while I was there

[@pagrainfarmer]

Thanks for posting this. I enjoy history and love seeing the old buildings.

[@redironacres]

Glad you enjoy it. Thanks for watching

[@banditfarmer1900]

Thank You for making this, It's apart of our AG history and a lot of people have never seen this before and I'm one of them. Bandit

[@redironacres]

No problem Bandit. When you see what the Oliver Charles City factory looks like I figured I’d try to document the remaining parts of the Cockshutt factory

[@banditfarmer1900]

@@redironacres I can say at least you have something to show other than a slab of concrete sitting there ! This is the first time I've ever seen anything about the Cockshutt Plant so it was very interesting to see this so Thank You for making this video. Bandit

[@redironacres]

I’m glad you like seeing it! Unfortunately so far it hasn’t generated as much interest as I’d thought it would. Hopefully it’ll take off at some point. It’s amazing there’s as much left of it as there is. The newer Massey factory is still there as well and is also very cool to see

[@banditfarmer1900]

@@redironacres Well we will have to do something about that and see if we can get more exposure to it. Be on the lookout for something from me one it. Bandit

[@redironacres]

@@banditfarmer1900 Thanks Bandit! Really appreciate it

[@markturney1682]

Thank you for posting.

[@redironacres]

Thank you for watching

[@Frob25]

Neat to see, haven't made it there myself yet

[@redironacres]

It’s best to go on the weekend when it’s quieter since there’s still a business being ran out of it

[@kevinvandriel6840]

My uncle was the final inspector at the white combine plant

[@redironacres]

Very cool!

[@mattcraztex9940]

Right in that empty area there was where the White Farm Equipment Factory was, Next door to that was the Massey Ferguson Equipment factory. Shame these great factories went out of business in the Triple M Metal building you can still see the old beams and crane rails on the ceiling of the warehouse where the assembly line used to be and where they keep the separated metals now. In fact as you drive into the weight scale the Railroad tracks that took combines out of the assembly line still exists in the ground half buried over.
Fun Fact, near this factory is a long road that goes into the County that is called Cockshutt Rd. It is named that after the Company and Factory, it was where the equipment was picked up and went down Cockshutt Rd to the farmers or across the border.

[@redironacres]

That was all part of White, this was the later addition put on before White sold the combine division to Massey. Massey’s latest factory is up off the Wayne Gretzky parkway where they build combines after buying out White. My uncle was a salesman for White and got to go tour when they were building the combines down, had a big tank of paint they would put the combines in to paint them. Would’ve been cool to see when it was operating. Yes I’ve been on Cockshutt road a few times! Thanks for watching!

[@donvoll2580]

Good day Now who owns it now?
My daughter went to university there. But I never thought of looking it up.
When my mom passed our funeral home director was from Brantford, said "how many minutes a combine would go from one factory to another, something like 10 mins. I think.
Anyways Thanks for now.

[@redironacres]

Looks like it’s a sheet metal company in there now. Yeah that likely would’ve been after Massey bought our White’s combine division and took the combines up to their new factory near 402. Thanks for watching