Wooldridge’s first motor scraper
The name Wooldridge will not be familiar to many contractors here. However, it was the third manufacturer to offer a motor scraper, right up there...
Category : Forgotten companies
Forgotten companies
Forgotten companies – Cletrac
In its heyday, Cletrac was quite an innovator and made a wide range of track type tractors which were very popular. Today, it is almost...
Forgotten companies: Ateco
Once the number one go-to organization for tractor rippers and a myriad of other useful attachments, the American Tractor Equipment Corporation (ATECO) enjoyed major success...
The LaPlant-Choate TS-300 motor scraper
LaPlant-Choate’s TS-300 owes its origins to a design formulated prior to World War 2. The TS-300 was LaPlant-Choate’s first motor scraper and despite being taken...
Forgotten companies: Austin-Western
Our subject this month is Austin-Western, a highly innovative company who manufactured a wide range of machinery from the late 1800s through to 1973 when...
Forgotten companies: Carco
Many of the readership will identify the name Carco as being associated with logging winches and forestry equipment. However, Carco’s roots go much further back...
Forgotten companies: Bucyrus-Erie
The Bucyrus-Erie Company was world famous for its range of face shovels, draglines, cranes and other mining and quarry equipment. However, it also made a...
Forgotten companies: Isaacson
Back in time when the track type tractor was still considered a new tool for earthmoving, there were dozens of companies offering attachments to outfit...