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Pics. from local tractor show

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Rollie NE PA

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Some random pics from yesterdays show, in Sweet Valley, PA
The Farmall H in mine and the John Deere Spoker is my Buddies. We go to the shows together.
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So where did Oliver go wrong? I have seen a few and they seem to have some real engineering thought in the designs.

Mark
 
it would be nice to see the J.D. R and the Oliver Super 99 square off in a pull. Who'd win that one? Great pics by the way :)
 
It's a long story. They were doing good,loaned some money to White Motors in the 50s. Times got tight in ag in the late 50s and White wouldn't repay the loan. Two corporate raider brothers by the name of Mailman bought enough shares of Oliver stock to have controlling interest. They turned right around and sold it to White,so White bought control of Oliver using Olivers own money. By the late 60s-early 70s White was having tough times and milked Oliver as a cash cow just continuing to make the same old products that had been out for 10 years. They had some excellent patents and ideas,including a patent on the CVT transmission in the late 60s. I've seen pictures of the prototype that they were going to put that transmission in and if White had spent the money and tooled up to build that tractor they would have buried all the competition at the time. But,the truck division burned off all the equity of the ag division and that was the end of it all.

Readers Digest version.
 
I don't know if that 6 cylinder 99 would pull like the Super 99 GM or not? It'd be interesting to find out.
 
There was a JD model R like that at our fair this year. What a massive tractor! What was the purpose of all the iron in front of the motor? Were they meant to run lots of hydraulics or something?
 
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