Written By Larry Gay. On October 31, 1944, the Cleveland Tractor Company and its line of Cletrac crawlers were purchased by the Oliver Farm Equipment Company.

The Oliver Farm Equipment Company was formed in 1929 by merging four farm equipment companies including the Oliver Chilled Plow Works and the Hart-Parr Company, a tractor manufacturer.

Putting together a family tree for most farm tractor companies often results in something resembling a twisted bush rather than a tall, clean-branched evergreen. Such is the case with at least one … ...

The Oliver Farm Equipment Co. formed in 1929 as the result of a merger of four American companies. The four were the American Seeding Machine Co. of Richmond, Ind.; ...

Oliver Farm Equipment Co. (plows, tractors, seeders, threshers) was formed in 1929 by the merger of four small farm-implement concerns. That year it had assets of $46,000,000, sales of $27,400,000.

Oliver Beck, 77, of Upper Milford Township died Tuesday, July 29, in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township. He was the husband of Pearl N. (Voortman) Beck. They were married 51 years last month.

CHARLES CITY - Gary Sunnes caught the Oliver tractor bug as a young boy and it has stayed with him for more than 30 years. "When I was about 7 years old my dad bought a new tractor and I got to ...

I have a Farmer’s Almanac from 1894, and I have 1913 letters from Oliver [Tractor Co.] to farmers who purchased their equipment.” According to Talbert, 35 to 40 vendors will offer toys for ...

He grew up on the family farm near Elma Iowa where he learned the value of hard work. He graduated Immaculate Conception Academy in 1964, and went to work at Oliver Farm Equipment Company in ...