The Oliver Farm Equipment Company was formed in 1929 by merging four farm equipment companies including the Oliver Chilled Plow Works and the Hart-Parr Company, a tractor manufacturer. When three new ...

To say that Gary Patrick enjoys old tractors is like saying that birds enjoy flying. Gary owns about two dozen antique tractors and has given many of them museum-quality restorations. Gary has a soft ...

The 49th annual Fall Harvest & Antique Equipment Show provided a dose of nostalgia just after opening its gates Friday.

CHARLES CITY — In the winter of 1901, Charles Hart and Charles Parr came to Charles City, the county seat of Floyd County. But while Hart and Parr were there, the two men built the first factory in ...

One of Atlanta's newest businesses is advertising itself with an old work of antique farm art. At the center of the RV Coral grounds on U.S. Highway 59 is a rusted hulk of a Hart Oliver Parr tractor ...

John Culbertson, who worked at Oliver/White Farm for 39 years, responded to a suggestion that someone should write a book before everyone was gone. CHARLES CITY - The people behind the tractors are ...

Historic Prairie Village celebrated its agricultural roots over Labor Day weekend with the 2025 Steam Threshing Jamboree, ...

PENFIELD – Every tractor at Historic Farm Days has its story, and the century-old Hart-Parr Number 3's tale is lengthy and well-documented. By contrast, the 1904 Hart-Parr tractor that followed it in ...

Tim Dezotell's shiny green 1930s Hart-Parr Tractor with bright, red wheels has passed from generation to generation in the Dezotell family. It's part of a legacy patriarch Percy, who died in the early ...

CHARLES CITY — Museums dot many rural counties in America, but few can claim the connection to agriculture this one does in Floyd County. Housed in the former home of an animal health company, it ...

A 2012 calendar from Octane Press features antique tractors, including many from the Midwest, and lists farming and collectible shows. Publisher Lee Klancher was the main photographer behind "Tractor: ...

The Oliver Farm Equipment Company added a second row-crop tractor to its line in the fall of 1935. The Oliver Hart-Parr Row Crop 70 continued to display both the Oliver and Hart-Parr names and ...