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Roadbuilding Construction Equipment at R.G. LeTourneau Heavy R.G. LeTourneau: Mover of Men and Oversize: Images of Heavy Western The Marion Film Archives #1
Work Series Equipment — The Electric Drive Mountains Trucking, Volume 1 Featuring a series of original 16 mm Marion Steam Shovel Co. and Marion Power Shovel Co. films that
Edgar Browning’s series of well-illustrated books show Era 1953-1970 R. G. LeTourneau’s famous autobiography. The By Mark R. Wayman. This look at heavy have been grouped and transferred to DVD, these films are from the HCEA archives. These black &
road and highway construction state by state through This second volume of fantastic machine story of how a struggling mechanic and contrac- over-dimensional trucking in the western U.S. white and color films include a broad array of Marion construction and mining machines including the
the early and mid 20th Century. Tremendous variety of creations covers the later years before the tor who was so small-time that he “couldn’t features over-the-road and off-highway heavy 5760 Mountaineer, Big Paul and Coal Chief super strippers from the 1920s through the 1960s. 1.5 hrs.
machines and contractors, supplemented in some volumes sale of the company to Marathon in 1971. power a treadmill in a flea circus” became a truck tractors hauling lowboys, tank trailers,
by reproduced ads and trade press articles. Softbound, Standard production, specials, and experimental machines are world-famous industrialist and philanthropist is bottom dumps, beam trailers, Schnabel trailers, #3036 - $25.00 SALE $22.00SALE $22.00
mostly B&W images. shown in rare archival images, some being shown in print for both entertaining and inspirational. 266 pages. Softbound. custom-designed trailers and more. 160 pages, 209 color
the very first time, help showcase what made R.G. LeTourneau #2511 - $7.99 photographs, softbound. The Marion Film Archives #2 — The Marion Family
so important in the heavy equipment history. Author Eric C.
Massachusetts Orlemann Paperback 160 pages B&W and Color photos. #2515 - $29.95 Our newest DVD, compiled from 11 original 16mm films in the HCEA Archives, features products of Marion and its
Haulpak and Lectra Haul: Mining associated companies. Color films show Western Contracting’s giant 191-M shovels; 43-M and other log loaders; the
148 pages, 234 images #2426 - $32.95 and Quarry Trucks, a Photo Gallery Oversize: Images of Heavy Western 80-M shovel; loading shovels; and The Osgood product line. B&W films cover the Marion Type 7 Shovel; Marions at work
at Boulder Dam; the Quickway J and E; General 310; Osgood 1¼ Yard; and Osgood-General line. Sound included on some.
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#2558, $36.95 SALE $32.95 5 Classic Vintage Crawlers & Dozers By Eric C. Orlemann. Introduced in the late By Mark R. Wayman. More king-sized truck Approximately 100 minutes playing time.
1950s and early 1960s respectively, the
Volume I legendary Haulpak and Lectra Haul trucks tractors and trailers, but with construction of #3040 -$25.00 SALE $22.00SALE $22.00
shaped the way all modern off-highway
the Hoover Dam bypass, the specialized trucks
New York By Roger V. Amato and Donald J. Heimburger. haulers are designed to this day. Historic and modern and heavy equipment used in high-tension power line construc-
Volume I (of 2) discusses the machinery
of Allis-Chalmers, Case, Caterpillar (until 1950) and related photography, much of it never seen in published form before. tion, truck cranes in railroad service, and scale models of big
188 pages, over 300 images companies. Equipment lifespan, evolution, production statistics 160 pages, softbound, 288 illustrations. trucks and trailers as well, all in full color. 160 pages, softbound.
#2560, $35.95 and condensed specifications. 188 pp, hardbound. Nearly 400 #2550 - $39.95 SALE $34.95SALE $34.95 #2515-2 - $34.95
photos. NEW! Haul Trucks Volume II Haul Trucks: Volume I
#2508 - $54.95 SALE $44.95SALE $44.95 Northwest Engineering Company: Videographer George Buck presents his A dozen different models of end dump
Ohio A Photographic Archive Collection second volume of off-highway haulers trucks from Mack, Cline, Euclid, Terex,
Classic Vintage Crawlers & Volume One Children’s books make great in action. All-original footage shows Cat, Haulpak and a very rare KW
168 pages, over 300 images Dozers Volume II Birthday gifts! International Harvester, Terex, Euclid, Dart 40T are shown at work in mines,
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#2525, $36.95 SALE $32.95 5 By Roger V. Amato and Donald J. By M. E. Folsom and M. Torres. This volume of Hitachi, Cat, Mack, Komatsu, Faun, Isco quarries and construction sites. Each is
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Heimburger. Discusses crawler tractors Company documents the company’s start, as well as its first and Usborne Big Books! and Wabco trucks. 120 minutes playing time, all natural introduced by images of pertinent sales literature. No
narration, voice-overs or music in the all-color action
sound, no narration.
produced by Caterpillar from 1950 through second generation forays into the manufacture of full-revolving Rated for ages 3 to 5, these colorful books are built to footage, only the natural sound of these machines going
Pennsylvania (other than the 1979, as well as by Cletrac, Deere, Eimco, Euclid, Terex, excavation and material handling equipment from 1920 through stand the gaff! Printed on cardstock, stout hardcover #3043 - $30.00 about their tasks. Playing time 47 minutes.
Turnpike) International Harvester, and other manufacturers. Wheel 1940. 156 pages, 210 images.
dozers, manufacturers of dozer and crawler attachments, and #2553 - $39.95 binding, and many of the 9¾ x 11 7/8 inch pages fold Draglines & Shovels DVD #3038-1 - $30.00
over 280 images railroad and circus usage of tractors are also covered. 256 out for a total width of over a yard! Using his own footage as well
pages, over 300 color photos, softbound. $14.99 each! Hough International Dresser
#2555, $49.99 The Northwest Engineering as footage made available by Equipment At Work
#2508-2 - $39.95 SALE $34.95SALE $34.95 Company: A Photographic others, videographer George Buck
Rhode Island Archive Collection Volume Two presents an all-color smorgasbord In an outstanding companion piece
LeTourneau Heavy Equipment: A The Classic Years 1941 to 1966 of operating large and very large shovels and draglines. to Roger Amato’s new book, this is a
278 pages, over 400 images Photographic History From 1921 to Segments from two to six minutes document over thirty video smorgasbord of various machines
Today’s Modern Marvels By M. E. Folsom and M. Torres. In their third machines ranging from a Bucyrus-Erie 71-B shovel discussed in Amato’s work. Dresser
#2568, $49.99 collaboration on the history and products of through Marion 5900 super stripper and Bucyrus-Erie crawler tractors, wheel dozers, elevating scrapers and
By Eric C. Orlemann. With outstanding Northwest, the authors explore the products from the company’s 2570-W walking dragline. Playing time approximately wheel loaders, Dresser Haulpak and Payhauler trucks,
photography, this overview spans from peak years of excavator production. All sorts of applications, Big Trucks #2605 two hours. Dressta and Hough wheel loaders, and I-H scrapers
LeTourneau’s earliest earthmoving equipment from construction and quarrying to logging, maritime and Trucks, cranes and heavy equipment are featured with all natural sound. Running time 156
Vermont (Green Mountains) of 1921 to today’s giant P & H Generation 2 wheel loaders material handling, are shown, along with numerous images at the #3041 - $30.00 minutes. Author George and Denyse Buck
produced – with LeTourneau nameplates in the cabs – by Joy factory. The captions include much discussion of each model’s Big Machines #2606
128 pages, 250 images Global in Longview. This companion volume to the author’s design features and variants, and appendices discuss engine Construction, planes, ships and more Extreme Earthmovers at Work #3038 - $30.00
three previous books on LeTourneau includes much updated options and Road Show exhibits. 212 pages, softbound, over 300
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#2518, $36.95 SALE $32.95 5 information and all new images. 176 pages, 300+ photos. B&W images. Big Tractors #2607 Author Keith Haddock and videographer Eric Cranes & Excavators DVD
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Orlemann present examples of many of the
#2554 - $39.95 SALE $36.95SALE $36.95 #2553-2 - $44.95 Tractors, harvesters and polar vehicles major types of excavating machinery used Featuring B&W and color films from various manufactur-
Virginia in strip and open-pit mining. Star of the ers including Koehring excavators from the 1920s
The Gradall - A Story of American Bucyrus Heavy Equipment: Big Trains #2608 show is the Bucyrus-Erie 1950B stripping shovel Silver through the 1950s, Hopto’s earliest hydraulic excavator
142 pages, about 200 images Ingenuity Construction & Mining Machines Locomotives and trains from around the world Spade. Other performers include the Komatsu D575A-2 models, Bucyrus-Erie 10-B and 38-B, Byers Traveler
cranes and other excavators, and early Austin-Western
Super Ripper and D575A-3 Super Dozer crawler
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long-time Gradall executive, this book covers the The most comprehensive book about the products Mike Mulligan and His Steam Cat 994F wheel loaders, 657E motor scrapers and D11R showing models built by Manitowoc, P&H, Lorain, Bay
complete history of Gradall and its product lines of this famous manufacturer, encompassing every Shovel crawler tractors; and Liebherr R995 hydraulic shovels. City, Marion and American. Approximately 90 minutes
from the Ferwerda brothers through Gradall Bucyrus, Erie, Bucyrus-Erie, Ruston-Bucyrus By Virginia Lee Burton. First published in Playing time approximately 80 minutes. playing time.
International Harvester Hough and industries. 256 pages, dozens of B&W and color photographs and Bucyrus International product from the firm’s earliest roots 1939, this modern classic has delighted #3033 - $29.95 SALE $24.95SALE $24.95 #3037 - $25.00 SALE $22.00SALE $22.00
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Dresser: Construction and and illustrations, softbound, 9 x 12 inches. into the 21 Century. Soft bound, 224 pages, 456 black and white generations of children from three to eight
Industrial Machines #2516 - $45.00 SALE $40.00SALE $40.00 photographs. years old. Mike and his trusty shovel, Hydraulic Shovels
The construction and industrial product lines Bulldozer #2425 - $39.95 SALE $34.95SALE $34.95 Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut “Monsters Of The Pit”
mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city
of IH, Hough, Dresser and their successors are skyscrapers. No child should miss this story of friendship, hard DVD
presented along with brief histories of these By Stephen W. Meader. What can happen Kalamazoo’s Extraordinary work and ingenuity. Paperback; 48 pages. Also available in George Buck presents another
three companies. Also included are IH engines that powered when a young man, fresh out of high school and Inventor paperback. Please specify when ordering. live-action, live-sound compilation
these machines, many of the IH-powered machines built by other committed to hard work, salvages a Cat D2 and Jay B. Rhodes invented and patented the of heavy machinery at work. Many manufacturers of Know anyone who would like to
companies, and military production. Appendices present Nebraska starts a business with it? Originally published in pneumatic dump car, which saw heavy use #2601 - $7.99 large hydraulic shovels are represented, and a handful get this magazine? Buy them a gift

crawler tractor test results, condensed specifications and 1951, this classic of boy’s literature tells a story on the Panama Canal and many other heavy of mining-size hydraulic backhoes are shown as well.
production ranges for the construction products, and an overview of the fruits of determination, integrity, courage, ingenuity and earthmoving applications. He also held over 230 other patents for Playing time approximately two hours. membership! $35.00 USA and Canada,
grit. 240 pages, softbound.
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