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...
Category : Classic Machines
Earthmoving equipment as an art form
This month we’re doing something a little out of the ordinary. The 30s, 40s and 1950s were the zenith of stylish industrial design and class....
The Michigan 110-9 & Hancock 192 elevating scrapers
The subject(s) of this month’s article occupy a unique niche in the history of elevating scrapers as they are both one and the same machine!...
The Allis-Chalmers TS-260 scraper revisited
Sometimes persistence really does pay off. Even more rewarding when it was someone else’s idea. Getting stuck in and ironing out the bugs can be...
The Wheel Loader: A useful piece of equipment
When we ask our Contractor readers what they never miss in the magazine- it is the historical projects and Classic Machines which is written by Richard Campbell. So we...
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Some ideas are brilliant but never seem to catch on, some are basically flawed from the start and others are the subject of nightmares and...