I had just returned home from setting a utility pole at the neighbors when his son (older than I) pulled down to the barn and said&quot; I thought you are the one who should have this.&quot; He handed me a book &quot;Suggested Retail Prices&quot;, The Oliver Corporation. Holy cow! It was from 1952 and lists prices and options for any piece of equipment made by Oliver!
Tractors, Crawlers, plows,, harrows, vine turners, rakes, hay loaders... the list is endless. It also includes horse drawn equipment as well as iron wheels for the tractors. This has an amazing amount of options listed for any given implement.
   Two tractors were priced out, a &quot;66&quot; row crop with 10x38 tires and wheel weights listed for options.  Total price was $1,950.oo, including tax, freight($75) and dealer costs.
 The other was an OC-3 industrial with a crank ordered as an option. This was $2,406.70 with freight.
    Neither the neighbor nor I know where the book came from originally. The Neighbor had not worked for any dealership, the book had been in a box in a shed of his for years. They were not farmers so would have had no reason to have it. I am just assuming that it had always been in Maine.... maybe not.
 At any rate, it will provide me with a lot of interesting reading!
This was worth the price of setting a pole!    <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->   
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