My top 10
Image: One of Dryden Construction’s two Euclid 16TDTs photographed at the building of Wellington Airport in the mid-1950s. These austere-looking beasts are the reason that...
Category : Forgotten companies
Forgotten companies
A 16-ton beast: the Oliver OC-18
Image: Oliver promotional photo of an OC-18, taken on a highway construction job in the USA. The machine has a Heil cable-controlled straight blade with...
A respectable and reliable scraper
Working on the principle that two engines are better than one, Clark-Michigan introduced their model 110H-T twin-powered elevating scraper in 1970, writes Richard Campbell. The...
Made for the US military
Image: A 1962 factory photo of an M.R.S. model I-90 tractor unit with normal factory accessories (including the dozer blade). This is a Cummins C-160 CI-powered...
The very British self-propelled motor grader
Image: An Austin-Western Pacer 300, the motor grader on which Aveling-Barford’s highly successful model 99-H was based. Over 60 years old, this example is having...
Forgotten companies: Ateco
Once the number one go-to organization for tractor rippers and a myriad of other useful attachments, the American Tractor Equipment Corporation (ATECO) enjoyed major success...
The LaPlant-Choate TS-300 motor scraper
LaPlant-Choate’s TS-300 owes its origins to a design formulated prior to World War 2. The TS-300 was LaPlant-Choate’s first motor scraper and despite being taken...
Forgotten companies: Austin-Western
Our subject this month is Austin-Western, a highly innovative company who manufactured a wide range of machinery from the late 1800s through to 1973 when...
Forgotten companies: Carco
Many of the readership will identify the name Carco as being associated with logging winches and forestry equipment. However, Carco’s roots go much further back...