Clark-Michigan is a name more commonly known to New Zealand contractors for their range of wheel loaders rather than motor scrapers.
However the Michigan range of conventional and elevating scrapers have been around since the early 1960s in various sizes although very few were imported into New Zealand.
Our subject, the Michigan...
Specialising in assembled machines, primarily for the US military, the Mississippi Road Supply Company (MRS) produced a range of motorscrapers including the monstrous Model 250, the largest motorscraper available in 1959. BY RICHARD CAMPBELL.
MRS, the Mississippi Road Supply Company of Flora, Mississippi, USA, is a name unfamiliar to...
One of the first companies to realize the benefits an elevating scraper could offer the smaller earthmoving contractor was International Harvester, which introduced the model E200 in 1966. By Richard Campbell
Fast, maneuverable and legally roadable just about anywhere, the nine cubic yard E200 elevating scraper was sold in...
The Allis-Chalmers 260E elevating scraper was one of the quartet of elevating scrapers which appeared in the mid 1960s to challenge LeTourneau-Westinghouse’s dominance in the 21 cubic yard elevating scraper market. By Richard Campbell
As was the case with its rivals, the Allis-Chalmers 260E elevating scraper was based on the...
Breaking away from traditional Terex design philosophy, the TS-18 twin powered motor scraper was an entirely new machine from the ground up. The only link with the past was the name “TS-18” which had been used on a previous Euclid branded machine that had been discontinued in the mid-1950s. By Richard Campbell.
Terex engineers had...
Although it had only a short production life, the Euclid TS-18 marks an important milestone in the history of Euclid’s twin engined scrapers.
The TS-18 was Euclid’s first two-axle, twin-powered scraper and the forerunner of the amazingly successful model TS-24.
It is important to point out that the Euclid TS-18 has nothing in...
