The end of World War Two saw a massive increase in the demand for heavy equipment. Top of contractors' wish lists were large, high horsepower, track type tractors and Allis-Chalmers, Caterpillar and International-Harvester duked it out for top honours. By Richard Campbell.
Allis-Chalmers made a bid in the large tractor stakes when in...
Tossing aside a career behind a desk for one behind the controls of a big digger, Shannan Bell is thriving in the male-dominated civil construction industry. By Mary Searle Bell.
Shannan Bell has become a bit of a poster girl for women in the construction industry. The attractive brunette has more than proved her worth as an operator of...
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...
In one of the most significant single heavy equipment orders for delivery in this country, Komatsu is supplying 75 new excavators to leading equipment hire business, Hirepool.
The 75 new Komatsu excavators excavators, ranging in capacity from 1.8 tonnes to major infrastructure project-sized 20 tonnes, will be deployed across...
