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As of 2016, Mecum auctions 15,000 vehicles annually, ranging from muscle cars to pre-World War I vehicles, with annual sales of $300 million. [29] [30] The company specializes in muscle cars from the 1950s to 1970s. [31] By 2017, the company had added separate auction events dealing solely with motorcycles and farmer tractors respectively.
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Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries.Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills.
In 1890, the company purchased the rights to manufacture the Remington steam engine, and produced a range of steam-driven farm machinery, including steam tractors and combine harvesters. In 1891, the company built a gasoline powered locomotive for San Jose and Alum Rock Railroad. This was the first internal combustion locomotive built in the ...
Whitney organized the first comprehensive survey of California, and the first complete topographic maps of the state were completed under him. Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in California is named after him. The State Mining Bureau was established in 1880, and the position of State Geologist was changed to State Mineralogist.
Manheim, Inc. is an automobile auction company. As a subsidiary of Cox Automotive, a subsidiary of privately owned Cox Enterprises, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia, Manheim's primary business is wholesaling vehicles via a bidding process using traditional and online formats.
The Holt tractors were a range of continuous track haulers built by the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California which were named after company founder Benjamin Holt. Between 1908 and 1913, twenty-seven of the first 100 Holt caterpillar track-type tractors were used on the Los Angeles Aqueduct project, which provided a good proving ...
"California in 1846" map shows geographic distribution of Spanish and Mexican land grants Mexican land grants of Tehama County, California (Bureau of Land Management map, 1997) These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals ...