Category : Classic Machines

Wabco

The Wabco model 222 elevating scraper

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A genuine success story for Wabco, the model 222 elevating scraper could trace its ancestry right back to the electric steered Model C Tournapull of...
Caterpillar

The Caterpillar D8 dozer

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A true classic tractor in every sense of the word, the Caterpillar D8  has been around in various forms since 1935.   BY RICHARD CAMPBELL This...
International-HarvesterModel Collector

The IH TD-24 tractor

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Caterpillar

The Caterpillar 922 wheel loader

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Introduced in 1960, the No.922 Traxcavator was the second Caterpillar wheel loader to be released for sale (the first was the No. 944) and proved...
Allis-Chalmers

The Allis-Chalmers HD-19 tractor

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 Allis-Chalmers was the first heavy machinery builder to enter the big track-type tractor development race immediately following World War II. Richard Campbell looks at its...
Classic MachinesScrapers

The history of the towed scraper

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Before the motor scraper there was the towed scraper – one of the first types of bulk earthmoving equipment to be invented.   RICHARD CAMPBELL looks...
International-Harvester

The small Payhaulers 65, 95 & 100

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Euclid

Euclid’s TC-12 tractor

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Classic MachinesScrapers

LeTourneau’s Model C Tournapull scraper

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Perhaps no other motor scraper in the history of the genre helped to change the way that contractors thought about moving earth than the LeTourneau...
Classic Machines

The Hewco LD3 Scoopmobile

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This rather interesting piece of machinery can trace its origins through three decades and three countries: the USA, Australia and New Zealand.   By Richard Campbell...