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Jordan Bergsma

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I've been hearing/reading about Oliver designing a CVT about the time that they were taken over by White. All I've managed to find is that Oliver was doing something related to CVTs. Can anyone shed some light on this? Was it really a CVT?
 
according to a placard I read at the Floyd County Historical Society this summer, that's exactly what it was. They were also working on designing their own larger cubic inch engines and they concept tractors looked quite a bit different. Granted it was all conceptual. Hopefully someone on here worked either with this project or close to it. How ahead of the times would that have been??!
 
There was an article about it in Hart Parr Oliver Magazine,probably 2 years ago now. Don't remember right off hand which issue,but I'm sure it's available as a back issue on the HPOCA website.
 
The Advanced Products Divison designed and built one prototype CVT that would replace the over/under. It was shipped by truck from California to Hopkins, Minnesota. On the way it fell off the truck. I remember looking at it with the hydraulic lines all bent up. Business was going downhill at the time, so the entire project was dropped, the CVT was not repaired and was not installed in a tractor. This was in the early 70's. In the middle 60's, an 1850 prototype was equipped with a full hydrostatic transmission in place of the hydrapower. It was being tested on the test track in Charles City, Iowa. That project was also dropped.
 
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