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Caption: H.J.Williams had one of the many contracts for the Pennsylvania Turnpike job and here is one of its 10 Wooldridge TC-S142 Terra Cobras being push loaded by a dedicated International TD-24 push tractor with Bucyrus-Erie push plate. The complicated overhead reeving of the scraper is well in evidence in this photo.⁣
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Caption: Factory promotional photo of a Wooldridge model TC-S14 climbing a small hill. The TC-S14 replaced the model TCY around 1948 and sold in moderate numbers. ⁣
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Caption: C.J. Langenfelder, road building in Maryland, USA in the early 1950s. This excellent photo shows the spring loaded push block on the back of the scraper, as well as the rather vulnerable air brake lines leading down the draft arm to the rear brake chambers. Note also where the bowl is pivoted – directly through the back axle. Scraper in the background is a LeTourneau Model C Tournapull. ⁣
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Caption: An early production Wooldridge TCY motor scraper being push loaded by an Allis-Chalmers HD-15 with a Baker bulldozer blade. This Terra-Cobra has the very early two-drum cable control that was replaced by a three-drum PCU on later production machines.⁣
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Caption: From the authors collection, a Caterpillar D8-8R with push plate and a Sherwood Models LeTourneau model H-3 ripper. These models are to 1:25 scale, highly detailed and fully functional. Another H-3 ripper awaits its next assignment in the background. ⁣
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