Caterpillar Construction Equipment Books - History

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.

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Caterpillar Earthmovers at Work Photo Gallery

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.

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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.

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Cat & Zeppelin - Ein halbes Jahrhundert in Deutschland

Construction equipment from Caterpillar and Zeppelin. The author guides you through five decades of successful cooperation between Caterpillar and Zeppelin with an incredible wealth of illustrations, data and facts!

From the contents:
- Pioneers of aviation and construction machinery technology
- Trackless earthmoving machines
- First Cat wheel loaders
- Dump trucks
- Crawler loaders
- Articulated wheel loaders
- Excavators
- Articulated trucks
- Crawler dozers
- Traveling driver's cabs
- Cat mobile excavators
- Industrial and backhoe loaders
- Rollers and milling machines
- Mining trucks
- Civil engineering technology
- Mining excavators
- Giant wheel loaders.

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