Reply to Oliver Fan's post 2-12-08

Oliver Fan:

    The last Oliver (Orange Heading) "Sales Notes" that I have in my collection is dated December 1971.  That format was followed by the black & White Sales Notes in the above illustration.  The sales information in the later 70's was in the format as shown above.

     The factory did not paint the MM G955 in Oliver colors like the G1355 since it was a 98.63 HP tractor according to Nebr. Tractor Test.  Oliver's 1855 tested at 98.63 HP, Although the 1855 was painted in MM colors, there would have been too many duplicates.  Perhaps someone has repainted a G955 Meadow Green.  The Charles City built Oliver tractors were painted MM colors as follows:  1555 = MM G550, 1655 = MM G750, 1755 = MM G850 & 1855 = MM G940.

Neat pic I took on roadside.

Thank you for the information on the sales notes. I would think that Minneapolis Moline stopped using the "Product News" format at the same time that Oliver stopped using the orange heading format. I have some of the orange and black sales notes, and I don't have any of either color printed between December 1971 and July 1972. I don't have many "Power Pointers", like the 1974 edition that you show in your example.

Now, we all know about the G 1355's painted Oliver green, but not much about the G 955 tractors painted green. Before the Waterloo show I was in Charles City, and I gave Mary Ann a serial number for a Green G 955 that a friend of mine has. I talked to her on the phone last friday and she has had a hard time finding any information on that tractor. About all she can find is the date it was built. I have see another green Oliver G 955 advertised about a year ago, but I haven't see it. When I was at the Waterloo show I see the green Oliver G 955 on display. That would be a total of three green G 955's I know about. I don't have enough information to say if the green Oliver G 955's have factory paint or not. Maybe someone from central Ohio or around Cedar Rapids, Ia. know of others.

As far as anybody posting anything about true Molines painted green, that subject has been covered in the past.