Oliver Heritage Issue #82

Oliver Heritage Issue #82 Dec/Jan 2018

• FEATURING: Super 77 and HF9 Loader. The Super 77 was introduced in late-1954 as an upgraded model from the Fleetline model 77 that came out in 1948. Mounted on the feature tractor in this article in an HF9 Oliver loader, a model built in Oliver's Farquhar plant in York, PA. Feature tractor owners: Tim and Linda Slaughter - Marion, IN.

• Oliver's Mark on South Bend: What If? One single event nearly changed the face of South Bend before the turn of the century. On Christmas Eve of 1860, a disastrous fire broke out at the Oliver, Little & Bissell foundry... 

• Cletrac Facts: The Cletrac Export Division - Australia and New Zealand. During the end of the Great Depression, export sales of Cletrac crawler tractors continued to play a vital role in company sales.

• Reverse Loader: A Proposal Turned Down. What if this unit had been built? Would it have made a difference?

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

• Another Oliver User: Doug and Shirley Strade from Eden Valley, MN.

• Once An Oliver Man - Always An Oliver Man: Bruce Miller, Oliver Man.