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Archive deep dive back to 2008- check out the prof Archive deep dive back to 2008- check out the profile on the Euclid TS-24 scraper⁣
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caption:  Seen working in Island Bay, Wellington in the early 1960s, this TS-24 belonged to Feast & McJorrow and is getting a push from that company's TC-12 dozer. Note the straight exhaust pipe on the rear engine of the scraper with no muffler - standard supply ex-factory on all pre-1965 Euclid TS-24s. ⁣
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Archive deep dive back to 2008- check out the prof Archive deep dive back to 2008- check out the profile on the Euclid TS-24 scraper⁣
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caption:  Taylor & Culley's TS-24 on the main runway at Rongotai, Wellington, 1958. The massive no-nonsense lines and bug eye front cowling headlights are very apparent in this shot. ⁣
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caption: New Zealand's first Euclid TS-24 belonging to W.R. McKegg working on the Meremere Causeway job at Maramarua. The machine is fitted with a factory-installed canopy⁣
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caption:  A Goodmans Earthmover Model D with Type D Tournarocker photographed at what is now the Coastlands Shopping Centre in Paraparaumu. Photo taken in 1974. The author operated this machine for a time. It was fitted with a Powershift Transmission.⁣
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caption: An interesting shot of a Model D Tournapull and D scraper being pushloaded by a rare LeTourneau-Westinghouse LW12 wheel dozer. This photo was taken in New Zealand in 1962 but the location is unknown. New Zealanders never really grasped the concept of the wheeldozer like other countries.⁣
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