Classic machines: The scrapers of Curtiss-Wright
A company far better known for its aircraft such as the legendary Jenny, Kittyhawk, Tomahawk and Helldiver, plus a very successful line of aircraft engines,...
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Caterpillar’s Towed Scrapers
For over 30 years, Caterpillars towed scrapers were a mainstay of most contractors’ earthmoving fleets. As a one man tool, they could cut spread and...
The history of the towed scraper
Before the motor scraper there was the towed scraper – one of the first types of bulk earthmoving equipment to be invented. RICHARD CAMPBELL looks...
Classic Machines: Wooldridge’s scraper range
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...
Forgotten companies: Heil
Heil, whose head office and main production plant was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, was at one stage on the ‘cutting edge’ of earthmoving technology when...
Forgotten companies: LaPlant-Choate
LaPlant-Choate is not a well-known name in New Zealand. In fact if you mentioned it to a contractor today he would probably give you a very...
Forgotten companies: Mississippi Road Supply
Back in the November 2005 issue of Contractor we had brief look at the M.R.S Company (Mississippi Road Supply) of Flora, Mississippi, USA. I didn’t...