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[Cecil Bearden]

Well after checking Wikipedia, CAterpillar did not buy out LeTourneau.  
There are 2 of those Wabco-Westinghouse scrapers near Yukon, OK  a few 
miles South of here.  OPne is a Yellow civilian model and the other OD 
green ex military.  I have never been close enough to them to determine 
the drive lines.
Cecil

On 11/2/2019 8:08 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
> It was my understanding that Caterpillar bought LeTourneau as they 
> were too much competition.  A few Years ago Cat produced an Electric 
> Dozer.  MTZ/Belarus has an Electric tractor they call the Locomotive.  
> For an extra $5k option you can run the farm on it during power outages.
> Cecil
>
> On 11/2/2019 11:33 AM, James Peck wrote:
>> They were using the Komatsu dozers to harvest gravel from the sea 
>> floor near the coast at low tide. They were hauling it in with 
>> salvage AM General 6 by dumps.
>>
>> I bet Letourneau University did not change their name to Komatsu 
>> University.
>>
>> https://osuit.edu/komatsu/index.php
>>
>> [ustonThomas Mehrkam engineering graduate of Letourneau University 
>> <tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net>] <snip> I studied Engineering at Letourneau 
>> University in Longview Tx.  I met the man once. He was a real Genius 
>> and worshiped by everyone there. Unfortunately he died shortly after 
>> I met him. The Letourneau factory was across the road from the 
>> school. We toured the plant many times. They were manufacturing Giant 
>> Diesel electric dump trucks for mining Operations among other 
>> things.  They were also making Battle Ship shells. This was during 
>> the Vietnam war and they were making munitions for the war effort. 
>> They even had their own steel mill on the site. The School was 
>> great.  <Snip>
>>
>> [James] <snip> I saw my first Komatsu bulldozers while overseas as a 
>> young GI. I think LeTourneau became Wabco which became Dresser which 
>> became Komatsu.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komatsu_Limited
>>
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