NORTH HENDERSON, Ill. – Almost 80 years ago Bill Meeker’s father and grandfather bought an Oliver 70 tractor. It was the first Oliver in the family. “It’s a 1942 model. I’m a 1943 model. It’s been ...

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 ...

Every year, the Camp Creek Threshers show near Waverly features a huge amount of farm machinery and tractors. Jon Vanderford caught up with John Zakovec of Lincoln to talk to him about some of the ...

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 ...

Douglas "Oliver" Bush of Middletown has been around Oliver tractors most of his life. He is originally from eastern Pennsylvania, where he worked on a farm for his great-uncle who used Oliver tractors ...

The sound of an engine's roar lifted a heavy weight from the shoulders of four Cuero High School agriculture mechanics students. "When it drove out of the shop I was like, 'Wow, we finished it finally ...

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 Player Oliver 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, ...

Nevada may never have had a resident as passionate about Oliver tractors as the recently departed Wilbert Hadley. Except maybe his son, Tim Hadley, who will now carry on the tradition of collecting ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X NORTH HENDERSON, Ill. – Almost 80 years ago Bill Meeker’s father and grandfather bought an Oliver ...