While Oliver is notorious for their agricultural line of equipment, the company had also been in the industrial tractor business since the 1930's. This began with a separate model designation such as the Industrial 18, 28, 35, and, 50. Later the Airport 25 was also included. After those models the numeric designation was the same for both the ag and industrial models.

Until this point, both ag and industrial operation under the same flag. However, when White Motors stepped into the picture, they decided to separate the two creating Oliver Industrial Division.

Read the full article in the February/March 2006 issue, (# 11), of Oliver Heritage!!