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The Caterpillar company consolidated its product lines, offering only five track-type tractors: the 2 Ton, 5 Ton, and 10 Ton from the Holt Manufacturing Company's old product line and the Caterpillar 30 and Caterpillar 60 from the C. L. Best Tractor Co.'s former product line. The 10 Ton and 5 Ton models were discontinued in 1926.
By 1916, about one thousand of Holt's Caterpillar tractors were used by the British in World War I. Holt vice president Murray M. Baker said that these tractors weighed about 18,000 pounds (8,200 kg) and had 120 horsepower (89 kW). [13] By the end of the war, 10,000 Holt vehicles had been used in the Allied war effort. [14]
Baker was a farm implements dealer. [4] He worked with Deere and Co. in St. Louis in 1890. [3]In 1908, the Colean Co., a steam-powered tractor firm went bankrupt and its plant went up for sale.
This prototype tractor, built by Benjamin Holt, was the first The earliest predecessor of today's Caterpillar tractors rumbled across the fields of Roberts Island near Stockton, Calif., on Nov. 24 ...
The Caterpillar company consolidated its product lines, offering only five track-type tractors: the 2 Ton, 5 Ton, and 10 Ton from the Holt Manufacturing Company's old product line and the Caterpillar 30 and Caterpillar 60 from the C. L. Best Tractor Co.'s former product line. The 10 Ton and 5 Ton models were discontinued in 1926.
The most successful tractor produced was the C. L. Best 60 Tracklayer, later produced as the Caterpillar Sixty. In the mid-1920s, Holt encountered financial trouble. Best's financial backers approached Holt executives to discuss a merger. On April 15, 1925, C. L. Best Tractor Company and Holt Manufacturing Company merged to form Caterpillar ...
Holt Company photographer Charles Clements was reported to have observed that the tractor crawled like a caterpillar and Holt seized on the metaphor. "Caterpillar it is. That's the name for it!" [3] There was a further demonstration at Aldershot in 1908, at which King Edward VII was present. The tractor and trailer with dummy gun in place are ...
People who are associated with or worked for Caterpillar Inc. (formerly Caterpillar Tractor Company), including its predecessors (Best Manufacturing Company, Holt Manufacturing Company, C. L. Best Gas Traction Company / C. L. Best Tractor Company) or subsidiaries.