To the best of my knowledge Deere has never been associated with Kobelco. In the late 1980s when Cat bought out Mitsubishi, I believe Mitsubishi had a contract to build machines for several years.Kobelco was being built by Yutani at this time and Mitsubishi approached Yutani about building machines to fulfill this contract. To do this they started MDI/Yutani. I don't remember exactly was MDI stood for but something like Mitsubishi Distribution ______.This what I've been told. According to a Kobelco service bulletin a K907DLC was the same as an MD180LC, a K907LCII was an MD200BLC. There was no K907C twin. For parts diagrams go to Kobelco's web sight, they have everything online now.