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This book tells the story of the Hart-Parr Oliver Company, the "Founders of the Tractor Industry." It covers the complete Hart-Parr and Oliver family of equipment with more than 150 black and white archival photographs the row crops, standards, industrials, orchards, and crawlers as well as pre-production and custom built specials. Included here are stories of the designers and engineers responsible for making the Oliver such as remarkable machine. Also chronicled are the corporation acquisitions and mergers including Oliver Chilled Plow Works, Ann Arbor Machine Company, Cletrac, Cockshutt, Nichols & Sheperd, right up to Oliver's purchase by the White Motor Company.
A fascinating look at one of the legends of the agricultural world!
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