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.

As a young boy, my father, grandfather, grandmother and aunt (Dad's sister) strived to create a business that would aid the farm/business community.

An excert from Sherry's interview with Sam White, Former Oliver President!

By: Landis Zimmerman

This is the fourth installment on the history of the Cleveland Tractor Company and its products. In most respects this issue's installment on the history of the Cleveland Tractor Company will really start in 1936 where we left off the last time.

The Super Series-Red or Green Wheels???If you're a die-hard Oliver 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!

Haynes & Azdell began as a partnership in 1938, started by my grandfather, G. Thatcher Haynes. To most of his friends he was known as “Tat”. He was a farmer in the area of Alexis, Illinois and farmed 160 acres with his father, David Haynes. G. Thatcher Haynes was reared and educated in local schools and then in 1916 graduated from Gem City Business College in Quincy, Illinois.

By: Barbara Walters & Landis Zimmerman

Featuring Cletract

The 2005 Historical Construction Equipment Association show was held at the Reynolds Alberta Museum located at Wetaskiwin, Alberta Canada on August 5, 6 & 7 of 2005.

In the construction business, we were always looking for niches. Caterpillar didn't have anything like that or any reason to. And at our price, it meant that any municipality could afford to buy these. The parts business for these machines wasn't that good because they didn't use them that much.

CLETRAC BECOMES A FULL LINE COMPANY 1920-1930