Designed to compete directly with the Caterpillar 651, the Euclid S-28, and later S-32 were the largest single engined overhung scrapers that the company ever manufactured, and as it turns out, also the rarest. By RICHARD CAMPBELL
During the 1960s, there was a surge of interest in really big single engined motor scrapers.
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With the arrival here recently of two secondhand Cat 651Bs, the time is probably right to have a closer look at the largest two-axle, single-engined scraper that Caterpillar has produced so far.
Designed for fleet use in really serious bulk earthmoving situations, the first Caterpillar 651 appeared in 1962 along with a host of other...
