The Cleveland Tractor Company of Cleveland, Ohio, or Cletrac, started business in 1912 as the Cleveland Motor Plow Company. Best known for their crawler tractors the company existed until 1944 when it was taken over by Oliver. The General is said to have been the only tractor that the company built that rode on rubber tired wheels, it used three. Introduced in 1939, it was a general purpose, gas powered, one plow tractor, with the same 4-cyl. Hercules engine found in the HG crawler version. Cletrac's production of the General ended in 1942 but the little tractor continued on as the B.F. Avery Model A. Other variations were sold under the Co-Op name and by Montgomery Ward as the Wards Twin-Row.