With a weight of 70 tons and boasting 524 horsepower, the HD-41 crawler tractor made headlines as the largest built up to that time. Allis-Chalmers gave at-tendees a taste of things to come at the ...

Back in the early 1950s, management at General Motors Corp. (GM) decided to enter the earthmoving-equipment manufacturing business. After all, the company already had suitable engines for earthmoving ...

On October 31, 1944, the Cleveland Tractor Company and its line of Cletrac crawlers were purchased by the Oliver Farm Equipment Company. Oliver then changed its corporate name to the Oliver ...

In each issue of Diesel Power, the Baselines department will take a look back at the history of diesel-powered vehicles. This peek into the past of diesels will cover powerplants, historic diesel ...