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| Founded |
1890 (1st) 1992 (2nd) |
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| Founder(s) |
Juan & Emilio Senor (1st) Gustavo y Rodolfo Senor (2nd) |
| Defunct | 1987 (1st) |
| Headquarters |
San Vicente, Santa Fe (1st) Roldán, Santa Fe (2nd), Argentina |
| Products |
agriculture machinery tractor |
| Website | http://www.senor.com.ar/ |
The Senor brand dates back to the year 1890 when brothers Juan and Emilio Senor began their activities in the town of San Vicente, Santa Fe, Argentina with a workshop of black-smithing and the repair of agricultural implements. In 1905, sulkys and blood traction carriages were manufactured.
History[]
Juan and Emilio Senor manufactured their first self-propelled combine harvester in 1920, and in ten years later there were 155 harvesters working in the country. Don Andrés Bernardin worked for a time at Senor, before founding his own company. The company grew in such a way that by 1986 they had 400 workers and employees, with another 600 that worked in subsidiary companies, and 100 agents distributed throughout in the country.
Later they begin to work on the threshing of grain with threshing machines powered by steam engines. This led them to build their own design of short threshing machine in 1920 that is successfully tested in the wheat harvest of that year. In 1921 they began manufacturing the threshers under the name of Senor (which means Lord).
From 1960-1970 Senor produced 450 to 500 units a year of the combine harvester models Senor B 3, Senor JE-40, Senor JE-50, plus other implements such as sunflower and corn harvesters. They had about 700 workers either directly or indirectly working for the factory.
80's crissis[]
With numerous financial crises in the 1980's, the company went bankrupt and closed in 1987.
Models[]
| Model | Year(s) Produced | Horsepower | Engine Type | Misc Notes | Photo |
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| Senor B 1 | 1936-194X | B 1 in Pesados Argentinos | |||
| Senor B 3 | 1943-70 | B 3 in Pesados Argentinos | 
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| Senor B 4 | 1972-198X | 110 hp (82 kW) 135 hp (101 kW) |
Perkins | B 4 in Pesados Argentinos | |
| Senor B.6 | 1980-1986 | 160 hp (120 kW) 180 hp (130 kW) |
Deutz/Perkins | B 6 in Pesados Argentinos | 
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| Senor JE-40 | 1960-197X | 60 hp (45 kW) 120 hp (89 kW) |
Perkins/Chrysler | JE-40 in Pesados Argentinos | |
| Senor JE 50 | 196X-197X | 85 hp (63 kW) | Perkins | JE 50 in Pesados Argentinos | |
| Senor V-60 | 1967-197X | 85 hp (63 kW) | Perkins | V-60 in Pesados Argentinos |
Rebirth[]
In 1992 a new company was formed using the brand Senor. Gustavo and Rodolfo Senor formed G y R Srl in Roldán, Santa Fe, and registered the "Senor" brand as well as the internet domain http://www.senor.com.ar/.
In 2003, G y R made an agreement with Soldini-based metallurgical company C y M Materiales Srl, for the manufacture of a combine under the Senor brand, which sold poorly and was soon discontinued.
Models[]
| Model | Year(s) Produced | Horsepower | Engine Type | Misc Notes | Photo |
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| Senor B.9 | 2003 | 190 hp (140 kW) | B.9 in Pesados Argentinos | 
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Uruguay Company[]
Grandes Máquinas SA (Grandes Máquinas Concepción del Uruguay del Grupo Senor), a company in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos, and headed by Ricardo Senor, introduced a prototype of a new combine in 2012, the Maag Mitos. In testing, it was a failure and never proceeded further.[1]
Maag Mitos prototype combine - 2012
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