Oliver Heritage Issue #05 - Digital Copy

Oliver Heritage Issue #05 Jan/Feb 2005 - Digital Copy

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• What Year is My Tractor: How to read your serial number tag.

• Another Hercules User: A New Engine Line for New Applications. The Hercules Motor Corporation of Canton, OH, had always been a major player in the gas and diesel engine field. Cletrac began to use Hercules gas engines with its first installation in a Cletrac 40-30.

• Oliver Farm Loaders: Throughout the years, Oliver offered a wide variety of loaders for their tractors. 

• The Color Blind Plow: Red, green, orange, blue, or even purple, your tractor's color makes no difference. In 1966 Oliver introduced a new sales campaign in order to boost the sale of Oliver plows to farmers who were not Oliver customers.

• Rated Horsepower vs. Certified Horsepower: When the 50 series was introduced in 1965, so was the term "Certified Horsepower."

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

• Elnora, IN, Features Oliver: White River Valley Antique Association's 20th annual tractor and machinery show.

• The Oliver Brothers, by Ed Tabor. Oliver Brothers. That is the nickname Danny and I have earned over all these years. 

• The No. 2 Corn Master: When Oliver merged with Nichols and Shepard in 1929, they also acquired the corn picker that was designed to work with the Fordson. In the fall of 1930, the new Oliver Farm Equipment Co. announced a newly designed 2-row picker.

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

• Collector's Corner: Willard and Donna Zeeb of Menno, SD.

• Feature Collector: Oliveritus Strikes Again! Marty Whitworth and family - Highland, IL.