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Caterpillar construction equipment: books - history
A book on Caterpillar construction equipment? Here are books on Caterpillar crawler dozers, wheel loaders, scrapers, graders, dump trucks and other machinery.
Caterpillar - Photo Gallery
Over 500 factory photos of Caterpillar tractors in road construction, land clearing, mining, logging, farming, military use, and more. Follow the history of Caterpillar's crawler tractors, beginning with Holt Caterpillars and Best Tracklayers through the mighty D9. These sharp, clear, B&W images cover the years 1904 through 1963.
Author:
Peter Letourneau
Specs:
288 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 x 1.6 cm / 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.63 in, paperback
Holt Tractors: An Album of Early Steam and Early Gas Tractors - Photo Archive
The first Caterpillar tracked tractors and steam tractors made Holt famous. The photo collection in this book was compiled by the company as an overview of steam and gasoline tractors built between 1894 and 1912. During this period Holt sold 133 steam powered tractors, the majority to farmers. This is the most complete photo book of Holt steam tractors and early Caterpillar tractors ever published. It contains a fine collection of 125 high-quality large-format archival photos.
Complete with detailed subtitles and a brief overview of the history. The authentic pictures make this volume in the "Iconografix Photo Archive" series a rich source of information about the first crawler tractors.
Author:
P.A. Letourneau
Specs:
143 pages, 21.5 x 28 x 1 cm / 8.5 x 11 x 0.39 in, paperback
Illustrations:
123 b&w photographs
Publisher:
Iconografix (USA, 1994)
Holt Tractors: An Album of Early Steam and Early Gas Tractors
Cat & Zeppelin - Ein halbes Jahrhundert in Deutschland
Baumaschinen von Caterpillar und Zeppelin. Der Autor führt durch fünf Jahrzehnte erfolgreicher Zusammenarbeit von Caterpillar und Zeppelin mit einer unglaublichen Fülle von Abbildungen, Daten und Fakten!
Aus dem Inhalt: - Pioniere der Luftfahrt und der Baumaschinentechnik - Gleislose Erdbewegungsmaschinen - Erste Cat-Radlader - Muldenkipper - Kettenlader - Knickgelenkte Radlader - Bagger - Knicklenker - Kettendozer - Wandernde Fahrerhäuser - Cat-Mobilbagger - Industrie- und Baggerlader - Walzen und Fräsen - Mining Trucks - Tiefbautechnik - Bergbaubagger - Radladerriesen.
Author:
Heinz-Herbert Cohrs
Specs:
208 pages, 28 x 21 cm / 11 x 8.25 in, hardback
Illustrations:
450 b&w and colour photographs
Publisher:
Verlag Podszun (D, 2000)
Cat & Zeppelin - Ein halbes Jahrhundert in Deutschland
From building roads through dense forests, mining the earth for raw ore, laying pipe, constructing power developments, to creating golf courses, Caterpillar's earthmoving machines have played an important role in shaping our world.
"Caterpillar Earthmovers at Work" features Caterpillars in action moving massive amounts of rock, dirt, trees and anything else in their path. See these machines used in forestry and logging, road construction, railway construction, hydroelectric power projects, mining and much more. A treat for all heavy equipment fans.
Author:
Bill Robertson
Specs:
160 pages, 28 x 21.5 x 1.3 cm / 11 x 8.5 x 0.51 in, paperback
Caterpillar Ten Photo Archive - Including 7C Fifteen and High Fifteen
The Caterpillar Ten is the smallest of the Caterpillar line, and probably the most popular among collectors and restorers today. These 4,500-lb tractors were born and raised in the years of research and development. All of these little tractors were affected by the classifications of the testing procedures as well as marketing strategy.
These are the tractors that were sold through the often-debated color change of 1931. Now they can all be found here in one photographic collection. Finally the opportunity for side by side comparisons of these highly sought after tractors is possible.
Author:
Bob LaVoie
Specs:
128 pages, 21.5 x 26 x 1 cm / 8.5 x 10.25 x 0.39 in, paperback
Illustrations:
119 b&w photographs
Publisher:
Iconografix (USA, 2000)
Caterpillar Ten Photo Archive - Including 7C Fifteen and High Fifteen
Iconografix photo book about Caterpillar Sixty crawler tractors and bulldozers. In addition to action shots (road construction, land clearing, forestry, agriculture and mining), this book also contains rare shots of the first Caterpillar diesel tractors. Over 132 high-quality historic large-format photographs from the Corporate Archives of Caterpillar Inc.
Complete with detailed subtitles and a brief overview of the history. The authentic pictures make this volume of the "Iconografix Photo Archive" series a rich source of information about old Caterpillar tracked tractors.
Author:
P.A. Letourneau
Specs:
143 pages, 21.5 x 28 x 1 cm / 8.5 x 11 x 0.39 in, paperback
The history of some of Caterpillar's biggest earthmovers of the period are detailed in this Photo Archive book. Start with the diesel 75, the great grandfather of today's D-8, and trace the changes made to the D-8 into the 1970s. Over 120 detailed factory photographs and illustrations show how technology changed drastically in those early years for mass dirt movers.
Included are the 1H, 8R, 2U, 14A and others, as well as company sales literature and WWII vintage photos. Many photos show attachments and equipment produced by Caterpillar and others for use with these earth-moving giants. As an added bonus, a list of D-8 tractors and its predecessors is provided, arranged by model, serial number and year.
Author:
Bob LaVoie
Specs:
128 pages, 21.5 x 26 x 1 cm / 8.5 x 10.25 x 0.39 in, paperback
Illustrations:
128 b&w photographs
Publisher:
Iconografix (USA, 1999)
Caterpillar D-8 1933-1974: Including Diesel Seventy-Five & RD-8
Kettendozer von Caterpillar haben Kultstatus, besonders der legendäre Cat D9. Die Autoren beschreiben packend in Wort und Bild die Geschichte vom ersten D9 Prototyp bis zum D9R. Neben Hintergrundberichten über spezielle D9 ergänzen interessante Baustellenreporte das Buch zu einem einmaligen Standardwerk.
