Oliver Heritage Issue #03 - Digital Copy

Oliver Heritage Issue #03 - Digital Copy

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• FEATURING: Hart-Parr No. 3 - the Grandfather of the Tractor Industry and the oldest, successful mass-production gas tractor in existence. No. 3 was born in Charles City, IA, in 1903. With a serial number of 1207, the machine was sold to George Mitchell, a Charles City farmer who ran a custom threshing operation. Feature tractor owner: the Smithsonian Institution. 

• Cletrac Facts: With this issue, we have presented to you a chart of rated lift capacities of Oliver Cletrac loaders. 

• French & Hecht: King of the Wheel - part 2. While most of us have heard of French & Hecht, few of us realize what an industrial giant they were. Let's go back 125 years or so to Davenport, IA. 

• Ask the Oliver Mechanic: Question and answer with Larry Harsin.

• Prairie Days 2004: Bible Grove, IL. 

• Curator's Corner: Todd Stockwell, Curator or Agriculture, Industry, and Technology at the Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis.

• Oliver Model 15: Most complete all-purpose combine you can buy! 1946-1956.

• From 50 to 55: a chart of changes. The frequent upgrading of models in the Oliver lineup generally took place about ever five or six years. To keep up with the times, the 50 series upgraded to become the 55 series in 1970. 

• Collector's Corner: Oliver walking plows, specifically, the No. 7 Vineyard plow.