This tractor (serial #71317), like the neighboring 16-30, was made by the Hart-Parr Company in Charles City, Iowa. The company made the 16-30 from 1927 to 1930. In 1929, the year that this tractor was built, Hart-Parr merged with other firms to become the Oliver Farm Equipment Company. Hart-Parr was initially established by Charles Hart and Charles Parr, two men who met as engineering students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Advertising themselves as "Founders of the Tractor Industry," the two men were arguably the very first to manufacture a commercially successful tractor with an internal combustion engine, making at least two in 1902, and increasing production in 1903. You can read more about the company's early history and about Charles Hart's departure from the company in Larry Gay's article, "Why Did Charles Hart Leave Hart-Parr?," here.
The Hart-Parr 28-50's Nebraska Tractor Test was #140, performed from August 17th to August 31st. You can view the results as a pdf by clicking or touching here. Stuhr Museum's 28-50 was reportedly used for threshing on J. H. Knorr's farm near Utica, Nebraska, in Seward County, about 55 miles east of Grand Island.
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