Oliver Heritage Issue #132 - Digital Issue

Oliver Heritage Issue #132 April/ May 2026

Now available for digital download ONLY. 

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• FEATURING: WHITE 9720: It was a giant and White's largest combine ever and the biggest in the market at the time. What started in the late 1950s by Cockshutt and came to fruition in 1979, would have a short lifespan under the White flag. So how did such an advanced machine come to such an abrupt halt? What if things hadn't ended like this?   Feature Combine Owned by Jackson Farms, Daleville, Indiana.    
  
  
• Another Oliver User : Jack Hobbs: an Oliver Legend. Perhaps, at 97, Jack is the nations and even the world's oldest Oliver collector, a distinction he would be proud to hold. Read about Jack's journey with Oliver Tractors through the decades. 
  
  
• Cletrac Facts: Landis Zimmerman ruminates on an age old question - "Why didn't Oliver Crawlers sell better?" Read about the Oliver and Cletrac merger and how "it really could have been better". 
  
  
• Oliver - What exactly is it? Is it a plow? A tractor? A motor or is even a plane?  Is it Gray? Meadow Green? Dark Green? Mist Green? Yellow? Red? Purple? Read along as Kenny Toohill shares the history and some personal stories from the factories that contributed to the wide range of Oliver Products.  
  
  
• Hart Parr 100 years ago:  One hundred years ago, Charles City's most iconic employer, the Hart-Parr tractor plant was moving at a rapid pace. It was the Company's 25th anniversary and the year was full of special events and ket moments. From sales events to banquets, read about the celebrations and the activity of a history making tractor company and its importance to Floyd County and the history of agriculture.  
   
• A Hercules in a 995? In issue #108 of Oliver Heritage, we listed some of the experimental work that was done in that department. These photographs verify the work that was really done, and yes, a Hercules DD-339 fits neatly in a 995!   
• Parts, classifieds, and ad listings.