Oliver Heritage Issue #19 - Digital Copy

Oliver Heritage Issue #19 June/July 2007 - Digital Copy

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• James Oliver: Plowmaker to the World. While building castings of all sorts in his newly acquired foundry, he set out to furnish the farmer with a much better implement. He constantly experimented with the chilling process in an attempt to find a successful method.

• Cletrac Facts: Allied Equipment Series, Part 4 - Ware Machine Works, pioneers of hydraulic earthmoving equipment and crawler loader production. 

• Goodison Oliver Story, by Jim Gibbons.  The year 1920 would prove to be one of great significance. Goodison would become a distributor in Ontario for Hart-Parr Tractor Company of Charles City, IA. This agreement would form the beginning of the "Goodison Connection."

• Growing "O": Oliver's Traveling Road Show, a show that would represent Oliver growing in the number of fine machines to help farmers grow their crops. The show would visit nine branch cities in 33 days.

• Collector's Corner: Export Division. 

• Oliver 155 Hillside Plow. 

• Norman Wade's Wooden Model Tractors.

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

• The Cletrac FDE in the Canyon, by Bill Mantz and Luke Rizzuto.

• The 1555 Loader Special: The "loader special" concept was the brainchild of Charley Anderson of Edgeley, ND. Charley had been a long time Oliver dealer in Southeast North Dakota.