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Euclid produced its first specially-designed, 7-yard (6.4 m)-long, off-road dump truck, the Model 1Z, in January 1934. It was powered by a 100 horsepower (75 kW) Waukesha gasoline engine , and used an extremely heavy-duty, Euclid rear axle , fitted with a new 17.5 x 24 tire, which had just been released by the tire industry.
In 1953, General Motors purchased Euclid, expanding the business to include more than half of all U.S. off-highway dump truck sales. Due to a 1968 Justice Department ruling, GM was required to stop manufacturing and selling off-highway trucks in the United States for four years and divest the Euclid brand. GM coined the "Terex" name in 1968 ...
Also preserved are several items of quarry machinery including a 22RB Ruston-Bucyrus face shovel, a 22RB Ruston-Bucyrus dragline excavator and a Euclid dump truck as used in local quarry systems. The cab of the massive Ransomes & Rapier dragline excavator Sundew is on display along with a cab from 110RB Ruston-Bucyrus dragline from the ...
White truck in Iquique, Chile White truck in the Chicago Fire Department from 1930 to 1941 1944 White Model VA-114 truck on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa. White Motor Company ended car production after World War I to focus exclusively on trucks. The company soon sold 10 percent of all trucks made in the US.
The Terex 33-19 "Titan" was a prototype off-highway, ultra class, rigid frame, three-axle, diesel/AC electric powertrain haul truck designed by the Terex Division of General Motors and assembled at General Motors Diesel Division's London, ON, Canada assembly plant in 1973. Only one 33-19 was ever produced and it was the largest, highest ...
Jul. 8—Euclid Shore Cultural Center, located at 291 E. 222nd St., recently announced that a planned shared baking space is now underway and is currently accepting applications for bakers for its ...
A standard dump truck is a truck chassis with a dump body mounted to the frame. The bed is raised by a vertical hydraulic ram mounted under the front of the body (known as a front post hoist configuration), or a horizontal hydraulic ram and lever arrangement between the frame rails (known as an underbody hoist configuration), and the back of ...
1691: The First Food Trucks. This is when New Amsterdam (which became New York City) began allowing street vendors to sell ready-to-eat food. The vendors are so popular that public markets ...