Oliver Heritage Issue #135 (*Pre-Order)

Oliver Heritage Issue #135 October/November 2026

** This listing is a pre-order estimated to begin shipping early October **

• FEATURING: The Experimental Super 77 – A Tractor From the Past, Restored By Our Future: The incredible story of a one-of-a-kind Oliver Super 77 equipped with a GM 2-71 Detroit Diesel engine. Follow the history of this experimental tractor from Oliver's Charles City experimental department and its connection to GM, to its rediscovery and complete restoration by the Four Rivers Career Center Night Shift students. The finished XO-271 made its big reveal at the 2026 national Oliver show in Wooster, Ohio.
  Feature Tractor Owner: Sherry Schaefer, Greenville, IL.
• The Springfield, Ohio Plant: Kenny Toohill explores the agricultural manufacturing history of Springfield, Ohio – the "Champion City" – and the companies that eventually became part of Oliver's story. From P.P. Mast, Buckeye Agricultural Works, Superior Drill Company and the American Seeding Company to Oliver Superior planters and grain drills, learn about the equipment produced at Springfield and the changes that eventually led Oliver to close the plant in 1959.
• Never Say Never – The Search for a Rare Family Tractor: A 1655 FWA Gas: Glenn Forward custom ordered an Oliver 1655 FWA gas tractor in 1971 for his New York dairy farm. More than 50 years later, he set out to find it – discovering the remains of the extremely rare tractor after decades in a boneyard. One of only four 1655 FWA gas tractors built, the family tractor was identified, authenticated and brought back to life by Glenn, his sons and neighbor Stan Clark.
• Cletrac Facts – Choosing the Right Carburetor for Your Cletrac Crawler Tractor, Part I: Landis Zimmerman begins a detailed guide to the carburetors used on early Cletrac crawler tractors. From Kingston and Tillotson to Schebler and Wheeler-Schebler, this installment covers numerous early Cletrac models and the engines and carburetors used with them – valuable information when identifying parts or finding the correct carburetor for a restoration.
• John Deere Collector Also Likes Olivers: Richard Shank introduces longtime Kansas tractor collector and restorer Leonard Sinclair, whose collection included more than 200 antique tractors – most of them John Deere. But one tractor Leonard wasn't ready to part with was his 1940 Oliver 70 on steel wheels. Learn the story behind the Oliver that earned a permanent place among a sea of green and yellow tractors.
• The Nichols & Shepard Tractor Line – From Steam to Gasoline Engines: Sherry Schaefer traces Nichols & Shepard from its beginnings in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1848 through its famous Red River Special threshers, steam engines and eventual move into gasoline tractors. The story explores Nichols & Shepard's own tractors as well as its connections with Allis-Chalmers and Lauson before the company became part of the Oliver family in 1929.
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