If you're a die-hard Olicer enthusiast, you probably already know the answer to this question, but there are many young people starting to collect and many people starting to convert over to the "Shiny shade of green". So we're going to touch on this topic briefly!

Oliver had been a long time user of red and yellow on their plows and impements. It wasn't until the merger with Hart-Parr that green was introduced to the Oliver family. Now the company had THREE colors to contend with. This worked out fine for quite a while and did provide a very attractive color scheme. Having three paint colors in inventory, not to mention the additional color in the sales literature was very costly.

To read this entire article take a peek at Oliver Heritage's Issue # 10 from November/December 2005.