oliver farm equipment company
the oliver farm equipment company also merged with other farm equipment companies after the 1929 merger of the above mentioned companies .
1960 —white motor company buys oliver farm equipment, making it a wholly owned subsidiary .
the oliver farm equipment corporation was formed when 4 companies merged in 1929. these were the oliver chilled plough company, hart parr company, nichols and shepard company and the american seeding machine company .
the owatonna manufacturing company of owatonna, minnesota, specialized in farm equipment specifically seeders and portable farm elevators .
on november 1, 1960, the white motor corporation of cleveland, ohio purchased the oliver farm equipment company .
the oliver farm equipment corporation was formed in 1929 after the merger of the oliver chilled plow company, the hart - parr company, nichols & shepard company and the american seeding machine company. it was later known as the oliver corporation .
1929 —oliver merges with hart - parr tractor works, nichols & shepard company, and american seeding company. since oliver brought in the most assets to the deal, the merger was named the oliver farm equipment company .
1962 —white buys cockshutt farm equipment company and the cockshutt ame is still used until 1972 .
in 1960, the white motor company entered the agriculture market with the purchase of the oliver farm equipment company. in 1962, white acquired the cockshutt farm equipment company of canada. white increased its agricultural interests in 1963 with the acquisition of minneapolis - moline .
in 1960, the white motor company entered the agriculture market with the purchase of the oliver farm equipment company. in 1962, white acquired the cockshutt farm equipment company of canada. white increased its agricultural interests in 1963 with the acquisition of minneapolis - moline .
the oliver farm equipment company was an american farm equipment manufacturer from the 20th century. it was formed as a result of a 1929 merger of four companies: the american seeding machine company of richmond, indiana; oliver chilled plow works of south bend, indiana ;
1969 —oliver, minneapolis - moline and cockshutt merge to form white farm equipment, oak brook, illinois .
the white outdoor equipment portion that built lawn & garden equipment was sold to mtd .
the merger in 1929 a merger of four major companies formed the new oliver farm equipment company. the four companies were hart - parr, oliver chilled plow, nichols & shepard, and american seeding. with this merger, the new oliver company became one of the largest manufacturers of farm equipment in the us .
dairyman78 - 10 / 24 / 2015 19: 55 i also was told that john deere got an advantage in the farm equipment business as they were the only company that produced farm equipment during ww2. the rest made war equipment .
from 1929 until october 31, 1960, old oliver was engaged primarily in the farm equipment business. beginning in 1944 old oliver also manufactured and sold crawler tractors for both agricultural and industrial purposes. it marketed its farm equipment throughout the world and in 1959 its sales volume ranked seventh among all farm equipment manufacturers .
the white motor company purchased oliver about 1960. the same whites that had owned the cletrac company .
• urltoken — kettle river iron works website. beautiful signs featuring oliver and your other favorite brands of farm equipment .
after purchasing the famous ohio cultivator company, the national farm machinery company did not waste any time in advertising their newly acquired farm machinery products .
the oliver farm equipment corporation was formed in 1929 after the merger of the oliver chilled plow company, the hart - parr company, nichols & shepard company and the american seeding machine company. it was later known as the oliver corporation. oliver entered the 4wd market in 1971 with the 2455 and 2655 4wds. the oliver 4wds were identical to the minneapolis a4t - 1400 and a4t - 1600 4wds. like the minneapolis - moline and white plainsman the oliver 4wd became one under the new white farm equipment brand in 1974 .
these returns were actually filed by white' s farm equipment subsidiary, which eventually became white farm. see note 9, supra
reproductions of 16mm films produced between 1957 and 1981 by summit film productions, ltd. which were released as promotional films for cockshutt farm equipment company, white farm machinery canada, white usa and oliver corporation
they did all below, plus they kept making farm equipment that was in short supply .
in 1889, a (rthur). b. farquhar began building threshing machines and other farm machinery. 1920s farquhar threshing machine later, the company started the production of cultivators for farm use (especially potato harvesting equipment). farquhar produced some steam engines early then moved onto the production of traction engines. in 1952 the a. b. farquhar company was sold to the oliver farm equipment company. when white farm equipment took over the oliver corporation, the farquhar company was not included in the merger and ceased to exist .
in the early sixties white bought oliver, then cockshutt, then minneapolis moline and then merged them together to white farm equipment .
on november 1, 1960, white motor transferred the oliver farm equipment business which it had received under the agreement to new oliver in exchange for new oliver' s common stock. new oliver' s tax basis in the farm equipment business on november 1, 1960, was the same as white motor' s tax basis .
oliver and minneapolis moline merged and became white. this group covers all the brands associated with the oliver company .
business and personal correspondence, newsletters, union contracts, ledgers, manuals, motion pictures, photos, and other printed materials, relating to the manufacture of farm equipment, especially in charles city, iowa; the history of tractors; acquisition of the oliver corporation (earlier name: oliver farm equipment company) in 1960; oliver corporation charles city plant; hart - parr tractor co. (earlier name: hart - parr gasoline engine co. ; part of merging companies which became oliver farm equipment company in 1929); white farm equipment co. ; uaw labor unions; and labor negotiations
the white motor corporation purchased oliver corporation in 1962 followed by cockshutt farm equipment company of canada. minneapolis moline joined white in 1963. working on brand loyalty white continued to produce oliver and minneapolis moline tractors .
together the brothers have collected sheds full of equipment that can trace their lineage back to the oliver farm equipment company through one branch of the tangled equipment family tree or another. they’ve also collected signage, collectibles, equipment manuals and anything else related to oliver equipment and its later incarnations as white and then agco. for them, it’s challenging to find these rare bits of american farm history, and to piece together how one little company had such a role to play in building the american farm at the turn of the 20th century .
on april 2, 1929, the oliver farm equipment company was formed by merging the hart - parr company (tractors), the oliver chilled plow works (tillage tools), and the nichols & shepard company (harvesting equipment). the american seeding machine company (planting equipment) was added in may. this new full - line farm equipment company introduced three new tractors in 1930, two standard - tread models and one row - crop model. all three models were manufactured at the former hart - parr tractor factory in charles city, iowa .
the manufacture and marketing of farm equipment was oliver' s primary business at the time. see n. t. 194 - 95
james oliver died in 1908 at the age of eighty - five, and joseph d. oliver became head of the company. joseph had tremendous organization and marketing skills, and the company continued to thrive and expand, and it was joseph who led the company into the amalgamation with hart - parr and others in 1929, to form the oliver farm equipment company .
( f) all good will connected with the farm equipment business of the oliver corporation, including, but not limited to, all rights possessed by the oliver corporation in and to the name
oliver .
during world war ii, the company developed a high - speed tractor and scout car for u. s. army use. however, by 1944, low profits and high research costs forced the sale of cleveland tractor company to oliver farm equipment company. what was essentially the same cletrac equipment continued to be manufactured under the name oliver - cletrac .
farm collector is a monthly magazine focusing on antique tractors and all kinds of antique farm equipment. if it' s old and from the farm, we' re interested in it !
reduced farm income could cut purchases of farm equipment again. this was the bugaboo that led to the problems preceding the knudsen era. hedging against this; white has reduced its inventory of farm equipment by 20 per cent from the year‐ago level .
1943 —an arbor machine company extends long - term business lease to oliver. it is finally absorbed by oliver in 1970 .
white farm equipment co. | 61 t. c. 189 (1973) | 1wtc1891228 | urltoken
several other drill manufacturers made up the 1903 merger under american seeding machine company. superior drill company, empire drill company, and bickford & huffman were also merged (with the previously mentioned companies) into the american seeding machine and lost their individual identities in the 1929 merger into the oliver farm equipment company .
( c) all branch real estate * * * which is held or used by the oliver corporation in connection with its farm equipment business, and all machinery, equipment, jigs, dies, production fixtures, other tools, patterns, drawings, vehicles, and furniture located at the oliver corporation' s branches, which are held or used by the oliver corporation in connection with its farm equipment business, and all furniture and equipment at the home office of the oliver corporation .
in 1929, the oliver tractor company was formed by the merger of the oliver chilled plow company, the nichols and shepard company, the american seeding machine company, and the hart - parr tractor company. oliver chilled steel went from making plows in indiana to eventually making a complete line of farm equipment: tractors, plows, discs, harrows, combines and so on. they also had a partnership with cleveland tractor and made the oliver - cletrac crawler tractors. and oliver was long associated with cockshut in canada .
that thought crossed my mind too, but do you call them a farm equipment company or an auto maker? i wonder what order farm equipment companies would be in if you were to list them in order of their contribution to the war effort? if you called ford a farm equipment company, would it be ford, allis chalmers, oliver... ...? then what? or is that list even correct ?
they produced a full range of crawlers with worldwide distribution. they patented a controlled differential steering, which is still in use by crawler and heavy machinery manufacturers today. the oliver company continued to build cletracs until 1962 when white motor corporation purchased the oliver farm equipment company .
1944 —oliver buys cleveland tractor company’s plant, patenting the name of the tractor, the cletrac. oliver built cletracs until 1962 .
in 1922 the kewaunee machinery company inherited a portable farm elevator made of wood and steel when the company purchased a line of portable elevator line from the hart grain weigher company .
lano equipment is and alway has been a family owned and run business for new and used agricultural equipment and lawn & garden equipment needs. lano equipment is now an authorized dealer for agco, new holland, bobcat, h & s; , wil - rich, wishek, and other short line farm equipment. they are also a dealer for simplicity, ferris and grasshopper lawn & garden equipment .
the nichols & shepard company of battle creek company was established in 1848 by john nichols and charles h. shepard as a manufacturer of threshing machinery. in 1929, the company sold out to the oliver tractor company .
the hard‐driving mr. bauman liked the idea that farm equipment showed a profit margin three times that of trucks, so he set off on a whirlwind acquisition program for white. between 1960 and 1963 he picked up the oliver corporation, cockshutt farm equipment, ltd. , of canada, and minneapolismoline, inc. all were makers of tractors and other farm equipment .
on october 31, 1944, the cleveland tractor company and its line of cletrac crawlers were purchased by the oliver farm equipment company. oliver then changed its corporate name to the oliver corporation as it now represented more than farm equipment. the smallest crawler in the cletrac line was the model hg which was advertised as having 22 belt horsepower and 18 drawbar horsepower. in 1945, oliver introduced the model hgr crawler which was unique as it was the hg equipped with rubber tracks .
plevna implement company is a family - owned, full - line massey ferguson farm equipment dealership providing superior farm machinery service and sales support to its customers. headquartered outside of kokomo, indiana in the town of plevna, plevna implement was established by emerson p. shrock and james f. shrock when they began selling oliver tractors and farm equipment in 1945 .
see note 9, supra. the deficiency was actually assessed against oliver corporation, but the case caption was amended when oliver became white farm
a year later the lano brothers bought out the allis chalmers dealership in norwood. brother dick lano managed the norwood store. in 1961 the norwood store added the oliver franchise to their line - up. over the years the oliver company and minneapolis moline merged and formed the white farm equipment company. through those same years, allis chalmers became the deutz - allis company and then later on became agco. agco then bought out white farm equipment .
oliver farming in mower county minnesota: oliver row crop model 77 bearing serial no. 4501
hart parr went through a number of reorganizations, mergers, and buy - outs over the years. notable are the 1929 purchase by james oliver to become the oliver farm equipment company, oliver' s purchase of cletrac (makers of farm crawlers), 1960 purchase by white farm equipment, merger with cockshutt and minneapolis moline, and the white bankruptcy which lead to a series of inept owners including allied and new idea. oliver is now part of agco. the last tractor bearing the oliver logo rolled off of the production line in 1976 .
by 1929 the hart - parr tractor company, the american seeding machine company, and the nichols and shepard company were producing machinery that was becoming obsolete, and they lacked the capital and expertise to continue further progress. so, on april 1, 1929, these three companies merged with the oliver chilled plow company to form the oliver farm equipment corporation. this full line manufacturer shortened its name a few years later to oliver corporation .
• urltoken — the website of farmersville equipment. a great place to look for new and used oliver parts .
white corporation bought oliver in 1960. in 1974, they changed the name to white farm equipment. in 1985, white went bankrupt and agco bought the remains .
the oliver corporation began in 1848 as john nichols' blacksmith shop and foundry in battle creek, michigan. nichols later entered into partnership with david shepard to establish nichols, shepard & co. , inc. which manufactured threshing equipment. the company became a part of the oliver farm equipment co. in 1929, and in 1944, after a series of mergers, became the oliver corp. , manufacturers of a wide range of agricultural equipment. the company celebrated its centennial in 1948 .
in 1969 white motor corporation formed white farm equipment company, and gradually began transitioning to the white name. the oliver 2255, also known as the white 2255, was the last purely
oliver
tractor. with the introduction of the white 4 - 150 field boss in 1974, the white name was used exclusively; the oliver name was no more. in 1985 the white farm equipment company was placed in involuntary bankruptcy. today the patents are the property of agco - allis .
according to a full page ad in farm machinery and hardware magazine, “on july 25, 1929, the new flag of oliver flew for the first time about the home of the famous mckenzie line of potato machinery. ” from that time on, mckenzie manufacturing company would be a division of the oliver farm equipment corporation .
by 1929, each of these companies had essentially outgrown its usefulness to the industry. by uniting their various and somewhat diverse product lines into a single company, oliver farm equipment instantly became a virtual full - line manufacturer .
• larry morphew' s homepage — full of oliver information, pictures and other great oliver links .
oliver farm tractors is currently out of print, contact producciones de la hamaca for information about future reprinting .
as the company was straightening out lines of communication and striving for greater efficiencies, white was bringing out new trucks and farm implement models and launching a line of home gardening equipment .
an advertisement of the famous ohio cultivator company advertisement which highlights the “black hawk” name at the top of the advertisement and other new items of farm machinery which were being added to the ohio cultivator company line of farm machinery .
on october 31, 1960, white motor purchased the farm equipment business of old oliver (including the oliver trade name) in exchange for 655, 000 shares of white motor common stock (white stock), $ 1, 508, 550 in cash, and the assumption of $ 281, 396 in liabilities. old oliver immediately changed its corporate name to cletrac corp. , and on november 1, 1960, white motor transferred the oliver farm equipment business to its wholly owned subsidiary, new oliver, in a nontaxable exchange. petitioner white farm equipment co. (white) is the successor - in - interest to white motor and new oliver, and petitioner amerada hess corp. (hess) is the successor - in - interest to old oliver .
the national farm machinery cooperative or nfmc, set a goal of providing a “full line” of farm machinery for cooperative farm members all across the united states. nfmc envisioned selling a full line of farm machinery under the coop name in the united states through a large number of local farm cooperatives .
• copshaholm — the oliver mansion in south bend, in. home of j. d. oliver .
in addition to the long line of farm related equipment sales, lano also has a rental business. with their location fairly close to the twin cities business has been good for compact tractors, skid steers and lawn and garden equipment. lano equipment offers a huge inventory of new and used skid steer loaders, mini - excavators, tractors, farm equipment, trailers, utility vehicles, attachments and much more .
here' s an old smith farm equipment dealer in oliver and massey harris in westerville ohio small advertising coal bucket ashtray. this is an overall great shape please review pictures thanks for looking
j. d. was named as the chairman of the board and his son, james ii, became vice - president. the assets of the oliver chilled plow works exceeded the combined assets of the other companies and j. d. was quoted as saying, “my name goes on the company, or the deal’s off. ” thus the oliver farm equipment company was the chosen name. 13 even though j. d. died in 1933, his legacy continued. soon the oliver farm equipment company began adding to their line of machinery by acquiring additional plants. there were four plants established and each produced their own products. these plants were located in: south bend, indiana; charles city, iowa; battle creek, michigan; and springfield, ohio. the following companies made up the oliver farm equipment company :
genoa — for some, last weekend' s heritage tractor show in genoa was an opportunity to see antique farm equipment in action .
i was told by an old oliver dealer that they had some bean counters who were running the company in the middle 50' s to the early 60' s who were only worried about short term profits and cut way back on research and development. by then john deere came out with their new generation of tractors. i also was told that john deere got an advantage in the farm equipment business as they were the only company that produced farm equipment during ww2. the rest made war equipment .
allis chalmers, black hawk tillage equipment, dairy cattle raising, farmall tractors, ford cars, ford motor company, holstein dairy herd, international harvester, international harvester company, j. i. case company, john deere, soybean raising
after the acquisition of its assets and name by white, oliver corporation (referred to by the tax court as
new oliver
) was a wholly - owned subsidiary of white motor. in 1969, new oliver merged with minneapolis moline, inc. ; the surviving corporation was renamed white farm equipment company. white farm, the wholly - owned subsidiary of white, is appellee in no. 74 - 1635
four companies joined forces on april 1, 1929. the oliver chilled plow company dated from 1855. hart - parr tractor company began operations in 1897, and the american seeding machine company, dated back to 1848. nichols and shepard company, likewise began operations in 1848 .
( b) all land and appurtenances thereto, buildings, building fixtures and tangible personal property other than inventories, owned or used by the oliver corporation in connection with its farm equipment business * * * and all machinery, equipment, jigs, dies, production fixtures, other tools, patterns, drawings, vehicles, and furniture located at said plants or used in connection with its farm equipment business .
charles hart left the company in 1917 and pursued business ventures on his own. he left charles city and only returned upon the event of his death in 1937. the 1929 merger of hart - parr into the oliver farm equipment company brought about the oliver hart - parr “row crop” tractor, an entirely new model with a unit frame design and vertical engine .
almost everything written about the hart - parr co. and the oliver farm equipment co. says that charles hart left hart - parr in may 1917. however, accounts of his departure from the company he co - founded with charles parr differ .
lano equipment draws customers from a 50 mile radius and through the internet even farther away. they can provide any farmer all the equipment he might need .
there are tons of interesting stories from the old days of farm equipment manufacturing. one, from the 1930s, involves the oliver farm equipment company and the russian communist government and is told by elmer baker, jr. in his reflections column in the oct. 21, 1963 issue of implement & tractor magazine. baker (1889 to 1964) had been associated with farm equipment all his life and was for many years editor of implement & tractor. i’ve edited the column somewhat since baker did have a tendency to get wordy at times .
( in actual fact the ohio cultivator company had, indeed, been a full line seller of farm equipment for a short while in its earlier history. in 1929, ohio cultivator had signed a supply contract with the general tractor company of cleveland, ohio, to purchase a number of farm tractors to be sold together with ohio cultivator implements and through the ohio cultivator sales and distribution network. while this relationship lasted, ohio cultivator was a “full line” provider of farm equipment including a farm tractor. alas, however, general tractor went out of business and disappeared from the farm machinery market and ohio cultivator lost its supplier of farm tractors and once again became a “shortline seller of farm machinery. nonetheless, because of the newly expanded line of farm machinery, ohio cultivator was one of the a leading shortline manufacturer and sellers of farm machinery .
arthur briggs farquhar starting working as a apprentice for farm manufacturer w. w. dingee and company of york, pennsylvania in 1856. in 18 months, he bought a stake in the company using an advance from his father and became a partner. the company was renamed the pennsylvania agricultural works. eventually farquhar led the company, and it was renamed the a. b. farquhar company in 1889. by that time stationary and portable steam engines, like the one shown, and traction engines were the company' s main products, though it later expanded into gas engines and tractors. the tractor line was sold to the oliver farm equipment corporation in 1925, and rest of the company was sold to oliver in 1952 .
1979 —white motors spins off the agricultural division to tic, a texas firm and the white line is branded wfe (white farm equipment) .
cockshutt was a large tractor and machinery manufacturer, known as cockshutt farm equipment limited (1957–1962), based in brantford, ontario, canada .
white produced tractors, combines, outdoor equipment such as lawn tractors, corn planters, tillage equipment such as plows, disks and field cultivators 4 wheel drive .
the provisions of the proposed contract between the oliver corporation and the white company were determined by arms [ sic ] length bargaining between the officers and representatives of the two corporations. factors which were considered in the negotiations and which resulted in the determination of the purchase price of the property and assets of the oliver corporation to be purchased by the white company were the earnings records of the white company and of the oliver corporation' s farm equipment business, the values of the properties and assets to be purchased by the white company, the value of the common stock of the white company, the respective prices at which the common stocks of the two corporations have been selling over a period of five years last past, and the prospects and potentialities of the farm equipment business and of the other businesses of the oliver corporation, and of the businesses of the white company .
production of the white line of tractors and implements continued for several years. oliver (or white) then began to buy up other companies and close plants to cut overhead expenses (and create more profits). this resulted in the closing of many of the oldest oliver factories. oliver tractors were manufactured until 1976 when the last oliver 2255 rolled down the assembly line. the silver - colored white tractors had replaced the oliver tractor. throughout the many mergers and corporation maneuvering, nothing remains of the original oliver company, which began its legacy in south bend, indiana. as of 2002, there isn’t even a white tractor company anymore. white farm equipment is owned by agco and the oliver’s legacy must be left to be preserved by the many men and women who restore and show oliver tractors and equipment .
in 1958, the company ownership was taken over by english transcontinental, a british mercantile bank buying on behalf of an american investment group that became the forerunner of white. the company name was changed to cockshutt farm equipment limited and was acquired by white motor company in january 1962. white had previously acquired oliver corporation in late 1960 and subsequently bought minneapolis - moline in early 1963 .
travel north to charles city to the floyd county historical society museum, one of the midwest’s largest rural county museums. here you can view hart - parr and oliver tractors and white farm equipment, artifacts from the factory, company advertising literature, photos and memorabilia .
on november 1, 1960 white motor corporation of cleveland, ohio, a truck manufacturer, acquired oliver corporation as a wholly - owned subsidiary. white also acquired cockshutt farm equipment of canada in february, 1962, and it was made a subsidiary of oliver corporation .
the famous ohio cultivator company used the profits from the record sales of the freemont cultivator to add a manure spreader, a hay mower, a soil pulverizer and other farm implements to expand the number farm implements that the famous ohio cultivator company offered to the farming public. however, even with this expansion of the line of implements, the ohio cultivator company was still a “full line” manufacturer of farm equipment. at this time of tractor power farming, ohio cultivator needed to have a farm tractor to offer to the farming public in order to be a “full line” seller of farm machinery .
dairyman78 - 10 / 24 / 2015 17: 55 i was told by an old oliver dealer that they had some bean counters who were running the company in the middle 50' s to the early 60' s who were only worried about short term profits and cut way back on research and development. by then john deere came out with their new generation of tractors. i also was told that john deere got an advantage in the farm equipment business as they were the only company that produced farm equipment during ww2. the rest made war equipment .
( g) all of the right, title and interest of the oliver corporation in and to contracts made or orders given by the oliver corporation in the usual and normal course of business for the purchase by the oliver corporation of materials, parts and factory supplies for use in the manufacture, sale or servicing of farm equipment .
see note 12, supra. white also acquired oliver' s two foreign subsidiaries, oliver international, s. a. , and the oliver corporation, argentina, s. a
the ann arbor machine company had its foundation in 1882. they were known for, mainly, their production of hay presses (hay balers). the company began in ann arbor, michigan and then moved in the 1920s to shelbyville, illinois. in 1943 a long - term business lease was extended to the company from the oliver farm equipment company. the shelbyville plant was closed in 1970 and was absorbed into the oliver factories at south bend, charles city, iowa, and brantford, ontario, canada .
new ownership and another merger were next for oliver. white motor company based out of cleveland, ohio acquired the oliver corporation on november 1, 1960. within the next few month white motor’s also acquired another line of tractors in february of 1962, cockshutt farm equipment. in 1963 a third tractor company was purchased and added to the production line up, minneapolis – moline. this line was blended with oliver so that there was basically no difference between them .
on june 16, 1960, white motor' s executive committee voted to submit to its board of directors a proposal to purchase the assets comprising the farm equipment business of old oliver. an outline of the terms of this proposal was stated in a letter from dragin to mailman dated june 17, 1960. the letter contained the following tentative description of how white motor proposed to pay for old oliver' s farm equipment business :
subsequent acquisitions by the new idea company included the horn company of fort dodge, iowa. in 1963, the new idea company bought the uni - tractor line from minneapolis - moline. in 1984, the allied company bought the new idea company. in 1985, the allied company purchased the white tractor company. in 1988, the white - new idea company closed the old tractor works located in charles city, iowa and moved all white tractor production to the new idea factory in coldwater, ohio .
in additional steps to ease the financial squeeze, the new management liquidated some operations and sold the diamond reo truck division, reduced its inventories, consolidated portions of the white farm equipment company and held peak borrowing under $ 230‐million, even though the company had a line for more .
white farm equipment company, a delaware corporation (successor to oliver corporation, a delaware corporation), petitioner v. commissioner of internal revenue, respondent. amerada hess corporation, successor by merger of hess oil and chemical corporation, petitioner v. commissioner of internal revenue, respondent .
both white motor and old oliver were publicly held companies with their stock listed on the new york stock exchange. white motor was a leading manufacturer of trucks and old oliver was a leading manufacturer of farm equipment. in the negotiation both corporations were represented by sophisticated and experienced negotiators .
after the initial couple of years, the brand name dropped the hart - parr and become solely oliver. with an extensive line of equipment already in existence, the oliver corporation had a bigger picture in mind. the corporation acquired cleveland tractor company, and crawler tractor production .
nichols, shepard & co. became nichols & shepard co. ca, 1895 - 1898. in 1929, it became part of the oliver farm equipment company. at one point the oliver corp. became part of the white motor company of cleveland, ohio. it appears that the white motor co. became defunct in 1980. the assets were bought by allied products, which sold the white tractor business to agco
the oliver farm equipment company came to be when four companies who were struggling in their respective fields joined forces in 1929. this enabled the new company to offer a full range of farming products under the one brand, and soon oliver was growing by acquiring other businesses. before being bought out by the white motor corporation in 1960, they were manufacturing crawlers, tractors and other non - agricultural products, most notably for the defence industry. white subsequently dropped the oliver name in 1973 .
in 1974 white motor company the parent company of oliver, minneapolis - moline and cockshutt merged the brands under the name white and the color silver. the white 4 - 150 introduced the field boss tractor line and was sold along with oliver and minneapolis - moline 2wd tractors in 1974. in 1975 white introduced its new white farm equipment brand across the tractor and implement lines. white 4wds were offered by wfe through 1987 .
vintage oliver farm equipment sales company of chicago illinois parts price list manual titled: oliver superior superior and black hawk manure spreaders parts price list no. s - 440 circa 1932. measures 8 x 10 3 / 4 inches in size (20 x 28cm) and is 102 pages in length. publication is an authentic original in condition as shown in photos .
the last oliver green tractor rolled off the assembly line in 1976, when it was replaced fully by the white farm equipment’s silver paint scheme. eventually, white would be bought by agco, which continues the white brand name today. but for the garretts, the challenge of finding, restoring, and most importantly, using the old oliver and white equipment on the farm is what appealed to the brothers. their oliver collection and fascination has always been one that was usable first. and these two combines are living proof .
the company was influenced by the u. s. entrance into world war ii, as the “limitation orders” that restricted civilian production of farm equipment, repair parts and exports had an impact on what john deere was allowed to manufacturer .
this gave the ohio cultivator company an advantage over competitors in the farm machinery market. harlow stahl exploited this advantage by expanding his line of farm machinery beyond the horse - drawn cultivator. in 1896 he purcased a factory of a company in dayton that had been making discs. in 1899, he purchased the struggling bellevue plow company. the ohio cultivator company also absorbed the ohio hay press company in 1900 and the bissell plow company in 1905. another agricultural business recession struck the united states economy in 1907 - 1908. nonetheless, through this recession the work force of the ohio cultivator company remained steady at 300 employees .
oliver did not buy out hart parr. the new oliver company was formed about 1929 with a merger of hart parr - tractors, oliver - tillage tools, american seeding - plantaing stuff, and [ misspelled ] nickles and sheperd - harvest stuff. maybe some others .
the oliver corporation also built an industrial line of equipment that included industrial road graders, forklifts, road rollers, crawlers, and power units to be used by companies. by 1947, the oliver corporation employed 9, 000 and business was continuing to grow. there were still members of james and j. d. oliver’s family on the board of the oliver corporation. however, during the 1950s the company started to change. 20
all - crop harvester. right from the start of production, the clipper combine was available only on rubber tires. like many farm equipment companies before world war ii ,
from cockshutt’s point of view, the deal concluded with the nfmc meant that cockshutt would be able to break into the united states market with a corporate entity that already had an extensive retail dealership network. this was the major benefit to the cockshutt farm equipment company would recieve from the deal. cockshutt’s entire line of farm machinery would be available for sale in the huge united states farm market .
this series contains various booklets, catalogs, and brochures relating to the sales of the oliver corporation' s machinery and machine accessories. also included are several manuals relating to the service and maintenance of oliver corporation equipment and product improvement .
even though our sterling township farmer had been impressed by the hydraulically controlled transportable disc produced by the kewanee manufacturing company, he was not so impressed by the portable farm elevator that was also produced by the kewaunee company .
24. the oliver corporation agrees to consent, on the closing date, to the use of the name
the oliver corporation ,
or any name including the word
oliver ,
by the white company or any subsidiary thereof, and promptly to change its own name to a name not containing the word
oliver .
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white motors, the parent company of the oliver corporation, acquired cockshutt in 1962. the cockshutt name continued to be used until 1972, when they were slowly phased out by white. cockshutt tractors were never built again. instead, oliver supplied them with tractors. at the same time oliver - built combines were discontinued and cockshutt became the combine builder for both companies. white motors was the name of the company until 1969. by then it had acquired both cockshutt and minneapolis - moline and reorganized as white farm equipment .
the kay - gee company continued to be involved in the retail business, serving as local franchisee for the allis - chalmers manufacturing company of milwaukee, wisconsin. in addition to selling allis chalmers farm equipment, kay - gee sold balers manufactured by the ann arbor agricultural company of ann arbor, michigan. the keck motor company was able to benefit from the fact that the ann arbor company had developed the first pickup device for balers (portable hay presses) such that the baler could be brought to the hay rather than the hay being brought to the stationary hay press. in 1941, its first successful automated self - tying hay baler was introduced by the ann arbor company. however, in 1943, ann arbor leased its factory and business operations to the oliver farm equipment company of charles city, iowa and later the ann arbor company was officially merged with oliver. with ann arbor balers no longer available the kay - gee retail division became the local franchise holder for the new holland machine company of lancaster, pennsylvania. this franchise enabled kay - gee to market the famous new holland “automaton” self - tying twine baler .
by 1877 the company had established branch houses (dealerships of oliver equipment) in mansfield, ohio; dallas, texas; rochester, new york; harrisburg, pennsylvania; and san francisco, california. in 1879 the company began to export the oliver plow to scotland. also, the plant expanded and railroad tracks were extended into the plant. by 1881 james oliver had purchased the remaining stock, which made the company a completely family owned business. the plant was producing 600 plows per day and employed 900 people .
the hoosier drill company was started by joseph ingels in 1857 and operated at milton, indiana. the company was acquired by american seeding machine company in 1868 when the company was reorganized as the hoosier drill company. they manufactured, at first, corn planting drills (hollow spikes that ‘drilled’ into the ground and deposited a seed) and then broadcast seeders .
in 1901 the south bend iron works was incorporated and the name was changed to the oliver chilled plow works with all 5, 000 company shares held by members of the oliver family. 9 by 1905, james oliver had been in the plow business for 50 years. this was also the most productive and successful year for the oliver chilled plow works .
the corn drying hanger proved to be a great sales success. based the success of this product, the company was able to expand into the manufacture of other products for the small diversified farm of the midwestern united states. however, the company expanded into the manufacture of other products for the small farm. by 1916, the company was making chicken waterers and hog oilers
in 1923, increased competition from other full - line farm implement companies forced the oliver chilled plow works to choose between an enormous expansion with a program to include more implements, such as, tractors or joining together with manufacturers of different types of farm tools and establishing its own full - line company .
in the mid 1980' s the ford motor company bought out the new holland company. through this buy out it added the ford tractor line to the lano equipment line of machinery. the ford new holland name later became just new holland .
the kewaunee company had been making portable farm elevators since 1922 when the company purchased a line of portable farm elevators from the hart grain weigher company of peoria, illinois. at this time, the portable elevator made by kewaunee was a composit of wood and steel construction. in 1926, kewaunee introduced their “all - steel” elevator. in anticipation of the production the new farm kewaunee elevator the kewaunee company had moved out of its old facilities to a new concrete block building locate on the corner of park and commercial streets in kewaunee in 1922. however, sales of the new portable kewaunee farm elevator grew so rapidly that the company was forced to move to still larger facilities in 1927 .
resolved that the directors of the company deem the sale of assets to the white motor company, in accordance with the agreement dated october 3, 1960, between the company and the white motor company, upon the terms and conditions and for the consideration stated in said agreement, to be expedient and for the best interests of the company. [ emphasis supplied. ]
in 1887 the oliver company began exporting plows to south america, which resulted in thousands and thousands of oliver plows sold that year. the plow market then expanded to include africa, australia, and france. the phrase “plowmakers for the world” was adopted as a trademark of the oliver plow .
the great - grandson of john deere, charles deere wiman, was president of the company during world war ii, but he accepted a commission as an army colonel. a replacement was hired and before returning to work at the company in late 1944, wiman directed the farm machinery and equipment division of the war production board .
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the pro forma balance sheet in the draft of the proxy statement also reflected the financing arrangements which had been made to provide white motor the working capital it would need to conduct the oliver farm equipment business. a footnote to the cash and notes payable accounts also predicted that the cash payment to old oliver would decrease as follows :
11. the oliver corporation agrees to sell and transfer to the white company on the closing date all of the outstanding capital stock of oliver international, s. a. , and the white company agrees to pay therefor as provided in this paragraph 11. the white company will pay to the oliver corporation a sum equal to eighty per cent (80 %) of the book value (after depreciation) at the close of business on the closing date of the machinery, equipment, jigs, dies, production fixtures, other tools, patterns and furniture, owned by oliver international, s. a. * * *
oliver stock was being bought by people outside the company, which led to a corporate takeover. the majority of stockholders wanted to sell parts of the company off in order to make bigger profits (and to ‘line their pockets’). and that’s what a majority of stockholders agreed upon and the most successful parts of the oliver company was bought by white motor company, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. at this time, all of the remaining oliver family left the board of the oliver corporation. white motors, now unimpeded, proceeded to keep what they wanted and sell off the rest .
( h) all of the right, title and interest of the oliver corporation in and to contracts made or orders received by the oliver corporation in the usual and normal course of business for servicing, not completed at the close of business on the closing date, of farm equipment, and for the sale by the oliver corporation and delivery after the close of business on the closing date of farm equipment * * * and in and to deposits of money or other property made by customers on the contracts or orders hereinabove in this subparagraph (h) described, or any of them .
white established white farm equipment in 1969 to merge and further consolidate the three acquisitions and by 1975 had discontinued all three of the previous brand names and began offering white equipment, distinguished by its primarily silver paint job. the cockshutt name was no longer used beyond the mid - 70s .
on october 3, 1960, the officers of old oliver and white motor formally executed a written agreement (agreement) defining the terms of the proposed sale of the oliver farm equipment business to white motor, subject to the approval of the shareholders of both corporations. the requirement of shareholder approval was expressed in the agreement as follows:
the oliver farm equipment company was an american farm equipment manufacturer from the 20th century . it was formed as a result of a 1929 merger of four companies : the american seeding machine company of richmond , indiana ; oliver chilled plow works of south bend , indiana ; hart-parr tractor company of charles city , iowa ; and nichols and shepard company of battle creek , michigan on november 1 , 1960 , the white motor corporation of cleveland , ohio , purchased the oliver farm equipment company .
the oliver farm equipment company was an american farm equipment manufacturer from the 20th century. it was formed as a result of a 1929 merger of four companies: the american seeding machine company of richmond, indiana; oliver chilled plow works of south bend, indiana; hart-parr tractor company of charles city, iowa; and nichols and shepard company of battle creek, michigan on november 1, 1960, the white motor corporation of cleveland, ohio, purchased the oliver farm equipment company.
the oliver farm equipment company was an american farm equipment manufacturer from the 20th century. it was formed as a result of a 1929 merger of four companies: the american seeding machine company of richmond, indiana; oliver chilled plow works of south bend, indiana; hart-parr tractor company of charles city, iowa; and nichols and shepard company of battle creek, michigan on november 1, 1960, the white motor corporation of cleveland, ohio, purchased the oliver farm equipment company.