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bounce, yer money order will get lost in the mail and yer dog won't come home. click on our "Contact Us" icon above for the quickest response to your questions. CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 CLETRAC AND OLIVER CRAWLERS TRACTOR AD D HG AG 6 OC 9 A magnificent collection of rare black & white photographs specially selected from public and private archives promote the unique characteristics of these popular tractors! Filled with informative captions providing histories of featured models. Dozers, loaders, farm tractors and more! Cleveland Tractor Company, successor to Cleveland Motor Plow Company, was incorporated in 1916, five years after Rollin H. White built his first agricultural tractor. A wheel-type tricycle, it carried its implements on a cantilevered frame that projected from the rear. White, designer of the White automobile, dropped the wheels in favor of tracks in 1916. Sales took off rapidly: 5,545 Cletracs in 1918; 6,631 in 1919; 10,111 in 1920. In 1925 and 1926, the line was expanded to include machines of up to 45 horsepower, giving a wider range of power to meet the needs of larger farms. Cletrac machines were, of course, not restricted to agricultural applications. Cletrac crawlers worked in road and general construction, mining, and logging operations. By the mid- 1930s, larger units were offered with diesel engines. By 1938, diesel power was offered in all five models. The onset of World War II limited the number of machines built for civilian markets. The General, a wheel-type general purpose tractor introduced in 1939, and the Model E, a popular mid-sized agricultural crawler, were dropped due to war restrictions. During the war, Cleveland Tractor built several models for the military. The company completed work, begun in the early 1930s, on a "high speed" rubber track-type tractor. The MG-1 "Bomber Nurse" was used to tow bomber aircraft on newly built airstrips. Its rubber tracks preserved runways and turf. Rubber tracks were later fitted to the civilian Model HGR, built from 1945 to 1948. In 1944, Cleveland Tractor Company was purchased by Oliver Corporation. In 1945, the new Oliver-Cletrac line featured four pre-war tractors, the models: B (diesel and gas); D (diesel and gas); AD; and HG. A fifth model, the new AG-6, was eventually offered in both gas and diesel versions. The Oliver-Cletrac name was used until 1951, when a new line designated Oliver OC was introduced. In 1962, Oliver was purchased by White Motor Corporation, and production was shifted from Cleveland to Charles City, Iowa. Subsequent production was pared down. At the time crawler manufacture ceased in 1965, the OC-4 and OC-9 dozers and loaders were the only machines offered. Cletrac and Oliver Crawlers Photo Archive includes photographs of a variety of Cletrac and Oliver machines, but by no means all models. A complete list of models, compiled from documents preserved in the Bakken and Higgins Collections of the Shields Library, University of California, Davis, appears on page 126. 10-1/4" X 8-1/2", Softcover, 128 pages, rofusely illustrated with 115 black & white archival photographs. Visit my Marketworks Gallery! Power Tools for Power Sellers! Phone: (***) 744-4449 M-F 9:00 to 4:00 Pacific Standard Time This item has been seen by alt people! (please look at our rules and privacy policy) |
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