[AT] Oliver /brochures WHY????

[Danny Tabor]

Ralph,     Its neat breaking out those old books I'll
sometimes spend hours reading and dreaming over them
      My favorite is the Book of Oliver. There were 3
of them and are now highly sought after. Mine has
everything Oliver came out with for 1929. It shows the
3 tractors for that year 18-28, 18-27, and the 28-44.
What is really neat is during that time tractors
weren't all together accepted by farmers, whether it
be financial reasons or beliefs, and so not only does
the catalog have the tractor equipment listed but it
also has the full line of horse drawn equipment. My
book is the second in the series of three. How I'd
love to have the first and third.
        Along the same line,(farmers beliefs) I have
to look as I'm not certain if I have this or if I'd
seen this brochure in somebody else's collection. It
advertises a walk behind cultivator and insinuates
"for the farmer who's not lazy"//////// neat stuff 
Danny Tabor
--- Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Danny Tabor <dannytabor2000 at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 12:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Spam/Phish> WHY????
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> 
> >        Yea, there was a 44 sold here locally for
> > $8500, not restored but complete. On ebay you'll
> see
> > parts machines sell for 3-4000 because of their
> > rarity.
> 
> Danny, you inspired me to dig out my old Oliver
> suggested retail price book
> from the mid 1950s. Would you believe you could have
> bought a new Super 55
> gas model for $1873.00 according to the 1955 book?
> If you wanted the "big"
> rear rubber it pushed the price to $1895.
> Diesel models were higher at $2360 or $2382
> depending on rear tire size.
> (Only two options, 10 or 11x28)
> If you wanted the special highway yellow paint it
> would cost you an extra
> $16.00.
> These were factory prices at South Bend Iowa.
> Delivery to Regina, Sask.
> would have been about $83 going by their freight
> rate of $2.89 per
> hundredweight.
>  By rail of course, in case you were wondering.
> 
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
> 
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