Tag : Historic Construction Equipment

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An elevating scraper to see off the competition 

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Image: A really nice study of a late production Wabco 111A, taken at Seaview in Lower Hutt, 1978. It has the wider windshield and 23.5×25...
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My top 10 

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Image: One of Dryden Construction’s two Euclid 16TDTs photographed at the building of Wellington Airport in the mid-1950s. These austere-looking beasts are the reason that...
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A 16-ton beast: the Oliver OC-18

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Image: Oliver promotional photo of an OC-18, taken on a highway construction job in the USA. The machine has a Heil cable-controlled straight blade with...