Floyd County Museum

J.Wondergem · Mar 16, 2015

From the Oliver Plant Archives at the Floyd County Museum in Charles City, IA. An Oliver 1600 prototype with four cylinder diesel engine. Never in production with a 4-cylinder.

rrlund · Mar 16, 2015

Thanks for posting that! I've seen poor pictures of it sitting in the background,but that's the first time I've seen a good pistures of it. That one's going in my files.

oliverkid · Mar 16, 2015

That is cool as heck! Wonder which motor they were using? Noticed it has a power-booster instead of a hydra-power to. It would be awesome to re-create that one.

Tramway Guy · Mar 16, 2015

Looks like a Waukesha-type engine. Maybe a 4-cylinder
version of the 310? That would be 207 cubic inches and
probably about the right HP for an early 1600.

e · Mar 16, 2015

That would have been one sweet rig especially with it
being 6-ish inches shorter.

I wonder what the two shift levers are about? There
is one curvy one that goes up around the left side of
the steering column then another straight one. I'm
assuming the straight one is for the two
speed....which is another curiosity. It looks like
it has a fill neck indicating it might have been an
oil bath. If it was a carry over from the triple
digits, I didn't think those two speeds were oil
bath?

BANDITFARMER · Mar 16, 2015

I just wonder what happened to the tractor after they were done testing it? That would be a real nice one to find it now. Bandit

jordan hackman · Mar 17, 2015

wow that is quite the looker. 4 cylinder diesel
with the A series decals that would be quite the
tractor. plus the fact it has a power booster
instead of an hydrapower.

rrlund · Mar 18, 2015

It'd be fun to try to make one wouldn't it? Marry up a Super 66 frame to a 1600 rear end and go from there.

T-bird · Mar 27, 2015

This was basically the XO-121 engine. They built roughly 14-17 prototypes and sent them to local farms around Charles City Iowa for field testing. Oliver brought them back to the factory and no one knows what happened to them today. A friend of mine who met an Oliver engineer years ago had this info explained to him.

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