The Terex S-11E scraper
Noisy but effective, the Terex S-11E made its mark on New Zealand. By Richard Campbell In 1964 Terex (then known as Euclid) entered the elevating...
Category : Classic Machines
The Allis-Chalmers 260E scraper
The Allis-Chalmers 260E elevating scraper was one of the quartet of elevating scrapers which appeared in the mid 1960s to challenge LeTourneau-Westinghouse’s dominance in the...
Wabco’s 101F elevating scraper
Probably the most unusual looking elevating scraper ever put into production, the Wabco 101F made its first appearance in 1970. By Richard Campbell An entirely...
International-Harvester’s E270 Payscraper
A logical development of its existing model 270 single engined open bowl PayScraper, International began design work on what was to become the E270 PayScraper...
LeTourneau’s LW12 Tournatractor
LeTourneau was first off the blocks with a wheeled bulldozer, a roadable and manoeuvrable machine suited to many earthmoving jobs. Here we take a closer...
Caterpillar’s first D9 tractor
When released in 1955, the Caterpillar D9D was one of the world’s largest and heaviest track type tractors, only exceeded in size by the Euclid...
Euclid’s TS-14 scraper
One of the most successful scrapers of all time, the Euclid (later Terex) TS-14 is still in production over 50 years after it was first...
The Allis-Chalmers 562 motor scraper
There is an inherent fascination with large pieces of earthmoving equipment, no matter what function they perform and the rarer those pieces of equipment are,...
Aveling-Barford’s motor graders
Aveling-Barford was formed in 1934 from the merger of two long established British companies – Aveling & Porter (est.1862) and Barford & Perkins (est. 1860)....