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The idea of the engine that powered the first Oliver tractor came from Charles Walter Hart and Charles H. Parr while working on a joint thesis at the University of Wisconsin. The Hart-Parr Company was organized on June 12, 1901 at Charles City, Iowa, where the first Oliver tractors were sold.

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