Oliver Airport 25 Tug Tractor Picture Needed

Found this one.~brad

Oliver built Industrial 70's in the late 30's and early 40's. These tractors were called 25's because of the horsepower. The latter 70 industrials were called just that 70 Industrials, and built up to 1948.

Before and during World War 2, Oliver advertised and sold some 25's as airport tractors.

They did not advertise any other model as a airport tractor.

A airport could have used any type of tractor to pull a plane around, including a row crop or standard, but I am not aware of any other Oliver tractor advertised as a airport tractor. This includes the 35 (80), 44 (90), or 50 (99).

I told Oliver Magazine about it and they wanted some pictures which I emailed them too now and they might include it in their upcoming Industrial issue in January. I wrote them after hearing they were coming out with a issue on the Industrials line. We know Oliver made the very rare Airport 25 (from the 70) which I included a picture in the link below too but still can�t find too much info about a Tug 80 tractor or if they ever designated such a thing which is why I started this post as you recall. This article should be helpful too since I believe the factory did do some customs and send out models with various options. Again this has 22� brake drums which apparently were that large for when they unloaded large object off the circus trains and that. Looks like this 80 tractor started out yellow from everything we can tell, and then blue and orange circus colors later.

Hopefully the pictures show in the link below but if you can't see them email me at [email protected] or look here at this page I tried to put them on too- http://greenacresequipment.com/Oliver80.htm

• 80 and 25 Tug pictures