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CLARK currently (2023) offers one of the broadest product lines in the industry, with products covering all five forklift classes, ranging from hand pallet jacks to 18,000 pound-capacity sit down forklifts. [1] According to the company, there are over 350,000 CLARK forklift trucks currently in operation around the world. [2]
Clark forklift, September 13, 2008 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Clark Bobcat skid-steer loader PCC streetcars, San Francisco F line Clark CT-40 tractor in IAF base Clark's predecessor was the George R. Rich Manufacturing Company, founded in 1903 in Chicago , Illinois by executives of the Illinois Steel Company . [ 1 ]
The first inventor of the electric washing machine remains unknown. [citation needed] US electric washing machine sales reached 913,000 units in 1928. However, high unemployment rates in the Depression years reduced sales; by 1932 the number of units shipped was down to about 600,000.
1920 advertisement for the Thor electric washing machine. The Thor washing machine was the first electric clothes washer sold commercially in the United States. Produced by the Chicago-based Hurley Electric Laundry Equipment Company, the 1907 Thor is believed to be the first electrically powered washer ever manufactured, crediting Hurley as the inventor of the first automatic washing machine.
Crown later decided to stop making so many one-of-a-kind trucks and developed two lines of E-Z Lift Trucks: an H series (hand-operated) and a B series (battery-operated). In 1959, when its lift trucks had annual sales of about $50,000, antenna rotators had annual sales of $700,000, [9] but the transition to the lift truck business was under way ...
A forklift (also called industrial truck, lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th century by various companies, including Clark , which made transmissions , and Yale & Towne ...
A telescopic handler, also called a lull, telehandler, teleporter, reach forklift, or zoom boom, is a machine widely used in agriculture and industry. It is somewhat like a forklift but has a boom ( telescopic cylinder ), making it more a crane than a forklift, with the increased versatility of a single telescopic boom that can extend forwards ...
MLA provides a full line of forklifts with complete sales and product support through more than 400 dealer locations throughout the United States, Canada and Latin America. The company's 860,000 sq ft (80,000 m 2 ). facility in Houston is located on 42 acres (170,000 m 2 ) of land and employs 1,200 workers, capable of producing over 25,000 ...