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...
Category : Classic Machines
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)....
Wooldridge’s scraper range
Wooldridge is not a name many of our readers will be familiar with and yet it was an important evolutionary branch of the motor scraper...
Euclid’s 82-40 tractor
Development began on what was to become the 82-40 in 1964 following numerous requests from contractors for a machine a little larger and heavier than the...