Post by Laapa on Mar 24, 2002 16:07:38 GMT 1
"Caterpillar Chronicle, The history of the worlds greatest earthmoves" by Eric C. Orlemann
168p, great color pics, MBI Publishing
This book tells the histoty of the Caterpillar brand from Best and Holt to the Challenger E-series. The early chapters are pretty much about the Ag-crawlers but the book the focuses mainly on mining equippment, Huge minging equippment...
A later chapter then focuses on the develpoment of the Mobil-Trac system (including it's military implementations).
The book is full of amazing pictues of some of the bioggest miningequippment in the world, as well as old and new Crawler tractors. It tells gtear storys of how different designs came to be and a lot of prototypes are included.
If I had to say anything bad about it it would be tath it might be a bit bias. I get a certain "If-it-is-not-yellow,-it-is-crap-and-everybody-who says otherwise-have-no-idea-of-what-they-were-doing"ish-feeling.
Still, if you are into big stuff, this is one of the most beautifull books i have seen.
168p, great color pics, MBI Publishing
This book tells the histoty of the Caterpillar brand from Best and Holt to the Challenger E-series. The early chapters are pretty much about the Ag-crawlers but the book the focuses mainly on mining equippment, Huge minging equippment...
A later chapter then focuses on the develpoment of the Mobil-Trac system (including it's military implementations).
The book is full of amazing pictues of some of the bioggest miningequippment in the world, as well as old and new Crawler tractors. It tells gtear storys of how different designs came to be and a lot of prototypes are included.
If I had to say anything bad about it it would be tath it might be a bit bias. I get a certain "If-it-is-not-yellow,-it-is-crap-and-everybody-who says otherwise-have-no-idea-of-what-they-were-doing"ish-feeling.
Still, if you are into big stuff, this is one of the most beautifull books i have seen.