Hart-Parr Company

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Hart-Parr Company
legal form Company
founding 1901
resolution 1929
Seat Charles City , Iowa , USA
management Charles H. Parr
Branch Tractors , automobiles

Tractor 12-24 (1924-1930)
Tractor 18-36 (1926-1930)

Hart-Parr Company was an American manufacturer of tractors and motor vehicles .

Company history

Charles Hart and Charles Parr founded the company in Charles City , Iowa in 1901 as a tractor manufacturer. In 1908 a few passenger cars were built . The brand name was Hart-Parr .

Parr left the company in 1917. In 1929 the merger with other companies followed to form the Oliver Farm Equipment Company . The brand name was used for some time.

vehicles

The tractors had gasoline engines . They made between 22 and 111 hp .

The only passenger car model was a small runabout with a two-cylinder engine . The vehicles were intended for the company's own company's sales travelers.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 681 (English).

Web links

Commons : Hart Parr Tractors  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Wikibooks: Tractor Lexicon: Hart-Parr  - learning and teaching materials

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 681 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Tractor Data (English, accessed April 14, 2018)
  3. ↑ Larry Gay: Why Did Charles Hart Leave Hart-Parr? From May 2007 (accessed April 14, 2018)