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 in history to the dawn of the track-type tractor. By Richard Campbell
Originally founded in 1905 in Seattle, Washington, Carco (originally known as the Seattle Car Company)...
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 ‘tree’. RICHARD CAMPBELL EXPLAINS.
Mack Wooldridge (1890-1962) was a contemporary of Robert LeTourneau and was trained as an auto mechanic. He was fascinated by heavy equipment and was one of...
Heil, whose head office and main production plant was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, was at one stage on the ‘cutting edge’ of earthmoving technology when it introduced its ‘Heiliner’ series of motor scrapers and bottom dump wagons.
Heil got its start in 1901 and was one of the pioneers of electric arc welding as applied to...
Back in the November 2005 issue of Contractor we had brief look at the M.R.S Company (Mississippi Road Supply) of Flora, Mississippi, USA.
I didn’t have a great deal of column space in those days so I have chosen to do a more in-depth feature on this little known manufacturer.
The Mississippi Road Supply Company was established in...
