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Caterpillar’s DW21 scraper revisited

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Born of necessity, the Caterpillar DW21, the great granddaddy of all Caterpillar 2-axle scrapers, went on to become a very successful scraper for Cat and...
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Back in the June 2006 issue of Contractor we had a look at one of Caterpillar’s most successful motor scrapers of the 1950s, the model...
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