[AT] LeTourneau

[Kenneth Gene Waugh]

I really have nothing to add to this thread, but the on-going mention of
LeTourneau keeps grabbing my attention. My Father had a PhD in Dairy
Husbandry and took a job helping the Peruvian government in early 1955. I
was 12 when we went. We lived in a very small isolated town in the
Amazonian jungle (Tingo Maria)--the Peruvian govt had an Experimental
Station there. Anyway, the LeTourneaus had a facility (Tournavista) even
further back in the jungle---I didn't ever go back to their place, but my
Dad did. If my memory serves me right, there was a father and a son; I
recall one time one of them was driving some experimental vehicle (was it
electric?) from Lima to their place, and they stopped by our house for a
day or two.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with anything; I am throwing it out there on
the off chance that one of you has ties to the LeTorneaus.


I just found this link, might be of interest to someone...
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/05/29/a-businessman-missionarys-model-of-capitalism-for-third-world-societies/

Gene Waugh
Elgin, IL

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 8:08 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> 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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-- 
Gene
Kenneth Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois
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