I&#039;ll expand with the same caveat...I read something a long time ago...The Cleveland Tractor Co purchase by Oliver in 1944 lead to the &amp;quot;OC&amp;quot; (Oliver-Cletrac) lline.  When White motor bought the farm equipment line in 1960 the took an option on the crawler line.  When they exercised it they only bought  the tooling and rights for 2 models or so and they moved that stuff from the OC plant to Charles City, Iowa. White didn&#039;t buy the old Cleveland Tractor Factory or other tooling.  This is probably where the other part of the thread came in. Rich people and companies could do strange stuff to us working stiffs to take advantage of tax write-offs, ect.  The oil company could have bought the stuff for a song, but then have written off a fortune via not operating. Que lastima!

[Edited on 4-18-2004 by NSUL8R]