When Oliver merged with the Nichols and Shepard company in 1929, they also acquired the corn picker that was designed to work with the Fordson. This contraption bolted around the tractor and rendered it useless for any other jobs, but it was far easier than picking and husking the corn by hand. It was first demonstrated on a few farms in the fall of 1927.

Helping you identify the year of your tractor!

If you attend many shows, you’ve probably noticed more and more small scale tractors and implements showing up. Some of these are very highly detailed. New to the shows this year is a one half scale Oliver 99 that was built last winter.

By: Jim Bequette

It's a small world when you talk to Oliver tractor collectors. Here's one story line where an Oliver dealer and his son, an Oliver sales manager, several farmers who were all related and used Olivers for decades, and a son-in-law all had Oliver stories to tell...

A certain tractor has been traveling the show circuit this summer that has many scratching their heads. It has a paint scheme that has many doubting the ability of the painter to match the color of clover white. However, the painter did a very good job matching the color and made the right choice of not using clover white.

to the HG, OC-3 and OC-4&46 Final Drives

By: Landis Zimmerman

As with most pieces of equipment, there are improvements that are made over the years. The final drive area of the HG, OC-3 and OC4&46 were no exception. When the HG was introduced in 1939, it was meant to be a light farm crawler. As it was adapted to earthmoving applications problems started to arise in the final drive area.

Here in Eastern Pennsylvania, we are having abundant rain and plenty of heat to produce some very fine crops. Field corm was tasseling before July 1st, which is unusual for us.

In issue #2 we learned about the history of the French & Hecht wheel company. However, we didn’t cover how this company related to Oliver.

Hart-Parr No.3

While 2003 was the centennial birthday of the oldest production gas tractor in the country, it is only fitting that issue #3 of Oliver Heritage should FEATURE #3.