Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) NORTH HENDERSON, Ill. – Almost 80 years ago Bill Meeker’s father and grandfather bought an Oliver 70 tractor.
During the 1930s, the tractor companies built a model of standard-tread tractor with more power than the other models in their line for use primarily in the Great Plains. For Oliver, this was the ...
WATERLOO -- Oliver tractors from Osage to Ontario, Canada, have rumbled into Waterloo for the weekend. More than 50 tractors from the extinct Charles City-based Oliver Corp. came to town for the three ...
The Oliver Farm Equipment Company added a second row-crop tractor to its line in the fall of 1935. The Oliver Hart-Parr Row Crop 70 continued to display both the Oliver and Hart-Parr names and ...
Career advisers are fond of saying that people should turn their passions into their businesses, and Sherry Schaefer, 53, of Greenville, has done just that. The publisher of “Oliver Heritage” and ...
HAMILTON, Ill. — The 54th annual Western Illinois Threshers Bee and Antique Show will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday near Hamilton. This year’s show highlights Oliver tractors and features ...
Podcaster Show PlayerOliver collector Chester Higginbotham talks about one of the photos on display from his Korean War service in the U. S. Air Force as he gives a tour Tuesday morning (January 15, ...
GENESEO — The 56th annual Antique Engine & Tractor Association Show will take place Sept. 15-17 at the association's 50-acre show grounds on Illinois 92 north of Geneseo. In 2010, the show moved to ...
PONTIAC — Ken Stoltz’s business card identifies him as an “Oliver collector,” but that title does not seem to accurately describe the Saybrook man who brought part of his tractor collection to the ...
BENNINGTON, MI — An antique Oliver tractor has found a sweet second career long after its farming days ended. Floyd Koerner III and his father, Floyd Koerner Jr., members of the Heart of Michigan ...