This colorful Caterpillar chronicle is loaded with modern photography and rare images from the company's previously inaccessible archives. The all-inclusive retrospective is a visual and informational feast, beginning with the tractors built under the Best and Holt names and continuing on to today's giant earthmovers. 250 illustrations, 200 in color.
This book is an introduction to all things Caterpillar. This photographic essay spans 1925 to present, emphasizing the company's modern state-of-the-art equipment, and is written by one of the company's most prolific historians. Starting with an explanation of the manufacturer's origins with Holt and Best, it quickly launches into the fun part--the equipment •Track-type tractors (including Challengers & track loaders)•Motorgraders•Scrapers (both pulled and powered)•Haulers (including rear and bottom dumps)•Wheel loaders and dozers (including compactors, backhoes, and skid-steer)•Hydraulic excavatorsAs a part of the new Gallery series from MBI Publishing Company, the book is filled with dozens of photos for an entertaining and informative read, and is bound in a flexi-binding for durability and readability.
This colorful photohistory features the giant equipment used in the mining and excavation industries. A bucketload of magnificent color photography depicts giant rear- and bottom-dump trucks, track dozers, wheel dozers, wheel loaders, scrapers, graders and hydraulic excavators--all of which are shown at work and from dramatic angles that accentuate their gargantuan size. More than half of the 24 manufacturers represented are North American.
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