Why the Oliver Tractor Corporation Was Dismantled - The Innovator That Got Swallowed by a Giant
In this video, we trace how Oliver went from an eighty-eight-dollar foundry investment in 1855 to building over half a million tractors — and then vanished. We cover how Hart-Parr invented the word "tractor" in a Charles City, Iowa factory, why the Oliver 70 forced John Deere and International Harve