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Vicon is a former producer of agricultural tools from Nieuw-Vennep. [1] It is now part of the Norwegian Kverneland Group, where Vicon is the brand name for a range of agricultural implements. Vicon was founded in 1910 by Herbert Vissers, who had settled in the Haarlemmermeer in 1904 as a company farmer and contract worker. Visser started as a contractor with a McCormick grain mower, which was pulled by three horses. Only after the Second World War a tractor was introduced for this. [2] The name Vicon was created by merging Vissers Constructie Nieuw-Vennep. [3] Vissers initially focused on the sale and repair of agricultural implements. Herbert Vissers died in 1933 and the company was continued by his three sons Herbert, Bas and Joop. [4] After 1940, the company began developing its own agricultural equipment, including a fertilizer spreader, seeder, lawn mower and grain mower. One of the other own products was a potato planting machine, of which 1,000 were immediately sold after its introduction at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht in 1946. [2] The product where Vicon gained international fame was the Rake Turner or Acrobat. It was designed by farmer Cor van der Lely in Maasland, and taken into production by Vicon from 1962. [2] The design could be mounted on the front or rear of the tractor and was later also executed twice. In its heyday at the end of the 1980s, Vicon with Lely from Maasland, and PZ Zweigers & Zonen from Geldrop belonged to the three producers of agricultural equipment that dominated the Dutch agricultural machinery industry. [5] At the time, this branch of Dutch industry had about 235 companies and employed 5,200 people. [5] In those heydays, the Vicon products were sold worldwide and there were about 1200 employees worldwide. [4] In the 1980s, Vicon also collaborated with the agricultural automation company Nedap on the development of milking robots for milking cows.
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