ContractorThe Mississippi Road Supply Company (M.R.S)Contrafed PUblishingApril 12, 2016September 23, 2024 by Contrafed PUblishingApril 12, 2016September 23, 2024 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,...
Classic MachinesScrapersThe history of the towed scraperContrafed PUblishingMarch 29, 2016September 23, 2024 by Contrafed PUblishingMarch 29, 2016September 23, 2024 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 MachinesScrapersWooldridge’s scraper rangeContrafed PUblishingMarch 24, 2016August 20, 2025 by Contrafed PUblishingMarch 24, 2016August 20, 2025 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...
CaterpillarTractorsCaterpillar’s Diesel Sixty: A landmark machineContrafed PUblishingMarch 9, 2015September 25, 2024 by Contrafed PUblishingMarch 9, 2015September 25, 2024 The Diesel Sixty marked a significant milestone in the development history of the track type tractor in that it was the first such diesel engined...