Oliver 2 Bottom Plow ID and Paint Colors

I would like to paint this plow to it's original glory but am alittle confused as to if is an oliver or one they made for someone else. The original paint on the rims is a golden harvest yellow as well as the tail wheel and mounting bracket. The fram and back of mole boards was red. The casting numbers all start with EP. The hitch is different than any other oliver rooster comb plow I have scene. Any ideas ??

First off, you need to read my answer to Fleetline Robert's question. He asked me what color I would paint the plow, and I told him. I didn;t say it was correct, but that's how I would paint it.

Now to answer the questions about the plowmaster and the heavy duty gang plows from 1945 to 1954, Yes, both series were painted red with green wheels up to about late 1951. At that time they started painting the plows green and the wheels red. When the replacment plows ( 4240 & 4440) first came out they were painted all green for the first couple years.

As for the plows built in the 20's and 30's, some were painted all red and some were red with yellow wheels. I have no idea as to the time frame when they painted the wheels either color.

You comment about the Cockshutt tractors and that they were painted red is only partly correct. The first few years the tractors were paint green, just like the Oliver's. Look at advertising brochure(s) FORM 110 7-38 10m and FORM F 2-38 23m. These brochures show the Cockshutt tractors (70 80 90 99) to be green and the wheels to be red.

The statement was made a short time ago about the Oliver 70's painted different colors, and the public at the fairs, etc. voting as witch color they liked best. If you do your home work you will find from about 1937 to 1942 Oliver painted their tractors green (AG), and red or green (INDUSTRIAL). Some were trimed in red, some in yellow, and some in orange. I don't mean to up set you, but the wheels were painted red, or green, and even some were even painted yellow. Yes, I said YELLOW. We won't even talk about the yellow combines, drills, corn planters or manure spreaders built in this same time frame.

During WW II, when Oliver and Cletrac became one company, the green (AG) and orange (IND) colors appeared. In about 1952 the color of the tractors and implements changed once again. The green color became lighter and the industrial equipment was painted yellow. This is the same time they changed the decals from red to yellow.

Have a good day today and a better day tomorrow.

Thanks, Robert

Try Again for the picture of other plow

We have a 100 we still use 2/16 and Dad sold one when I was young , it was red. The one we use is green, and under the green one, the back side of the mold boards is red the oliver red that was on the older items. If you need good rock shims I have a place to get them, you can plow about 30 acres of hard rocky ground, before they need replaced.

Teddy

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Thanks for your imput !!

If you every find out any more information, you will still have your orginal pictures to go by.