Posted by rrlund on December 28, 2014 at 06:56:10 from (162.250.24.206):
In Reply to: Re: Ahead of it's time posted by prawn farmer on December 28, 2014 at 06:47:41:
I think if Oliver had been left to their own devices,even under White's ownership,and if everything in development had been produced,they would have buried everybody else. I'd have to go back and find the article from a Hart Parr Oliver Collector magazine that had pictures and descriptions of a new tractor that was in development before I could describe it to you,but that thing was revolutionary,that's the only way to describe it. Nobody at the time had anything that could have competed. Unfortunately,White's truck division was tanking and they used the profits from the Ag divisions to prop up their failing truck division. Even if White Consolidated Industries had been allowed to take over White Farm Equipment,things might have been different,but the Justice Department stopped the sale to them because they owned too much of Allis Chalmers at the time.
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