The last Oliver green tractor may have rolled off the assembly line nearly three decades ago, but by the time the company's legacy was already cemented. With their unmistakable dark green paint, yellow grilles and red wheels, Oliver and Hart-Parr tractors were fixtures on American farms from the early 1900s into the 1960s, when he companies were acquired by White. In Oliver Hart-Parr, tractor enthusiasts can now revisit the evolution of two of the country's most successful tractor and farm equipment builders.
Tractor and farm equipment historian and expert C.H. Wendel expertly covers every Oliver model ever produced, including the Hart-Parr tractors that Oliver purchased in 1929, as well as machinery from Cletrac, Nicholas & Shepard and Cockshut. Thanks to Wendel's meticulous research and more than 1,500 photographs, tractor enthusiasts can take a ride through history with these glorious machines of the past.
| Flow Chart | 5 | |
| American Seeding Machine Co. | 6 | |
| Ann Arbor Machine Co. | 9 | |
| Cleveland Tractor Co. | 15 | |
| Cockshutt Farm Equipment Co. | 30 | |
| A. B. Farquhar Co. | 41 | |
| Hart-Parr Co. | 54 | |
| Minneapolis-Moline Co. | 87 | |
| Nichols & Shepard Co. | 92 | |
| Oliver Chilled Plow Co. | 107 | |
| Oliver Corporation | 123 | |
| Balers | 125 | |
| Beet Machinery | 129 | |
| Chain Saws | 129 & 170 | |
| Combines | 130 | |
| Corn Pickers & Huskers | 143 | |
| Corn & Cotton Planters | 147 | |
| Cotton Harvesters | 149 | |
| Cultivators | 150 | |
| Disc Harrows | 153 | |
| Drills | 155 | |
| Earthmoving Equipment | 158 | |
| Engines & Power Units | 160 | |
| Fallovators | 163 | |
| Forage Equipment | 163 | |
| Grinders & Hammer Mills | 166 | |
| Harrows | 167 | |
| Lawn & Garden Equipment | 168 | |
| Listers | 171 | |
| Loaders | 171 | |
| Middlebusters | 171 | |
| Mowers | 172 | |
| Outboard Motors | 173 | |
| Plows | 174 | |
| Rakes | 180 | |
| Rotary Hoes | 181 | |
| Sprayers | 182 | |
| Spreaders | 184 | |
| Stover-Oliver Equipment | 187 | |
| Tool Bars | 188 | |
| Tractors (Wheel) | 189 | |
| Tractors (Crawler) | 265 | |
| Wagons | 276 | |
| Windrowers | 278 | |
| Serial Numbers | 279 | |
| About The Author | 296 | |
| In Appreciation | 296 |
Overview
Gone, But Not Forgotten
The last Oliver green tractor may have rolled off the assembly line nearly three decades ago, but by the time the company's legacy was already cemented. With their unmistakable dark green paint, yellow grilles and red wheels, Oliver and Hart-Parr tractors were fixtures on American farms from the early 1900s into the 1960s, when he companies were acquired by White. In Oliver Hart-Parr, tractor enthusiasts can now revisit...