It all started out with a man and an idea that would change machinery forever. It the 1886 and a man named Benjamin Holt created the first combined harvester and coincidentally enough, he made it here in our hometown, Stockton, California. He then built his first steam engine tractor in 1890 and from there he incorporated the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1892 and from there on out, his life and the machine world was changed forever. Holt then went on out and creating and establishing its empire of a company, from purchasing an existing plant in East Peoria, Illinois to registering its trademark name to “Caterpillar” which provided Caterpillar tractors that supported allies during World War I. The Holt Manufacturing Company then went forward
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Taking the next step, it built its first steam engine tractor in 1890 and then moving forward to build its first track type tractor which would change the companies products and services forever. With the building of the first track type tractor in 1904, Caterpillar expanded form not only providing services for the agricultural world but grew into providing service for construction,earthmoving, and building things such as dams and canal and large waterways. The company expanded its tractor line by adding a new type of tractor in 1928, the auto patrol grade tractor which advanced the road making process forever, making the process of grading and leveling roads 10 times easier. Creating its first wheel tractor in 1941, Caterpillar had a huge impact on World War I by providing the tractor to allies of the United States. With the creation of its first bulldozer type tractor in 1945, Caterpillar advanced the tractor world but proving a line of bulldozer tractors starting with the D1 and building its current largest bulldozer, the D11. Beginning to expand worldwide with its first overseas subsidiary in England in 1950, Caterpillar also expanded its products and services in the next 50 years from making equipment to help the scientists in Antartica explore to moving into the solar turbine world, Caterpillar moved from making tractors to harvest wheat
Taking the next step, it built its first steam engine tractor in 1890 and then moving forward to build its first track type tractor which would change the companies products and services forever. With the building of the first track type tractor in 1904, Caterpillar expanded form not only providing services for the agricultural world but grew into providing service for construction,earthmoving, and building things such as dams and canal and large waterways. The company expanded its tractor line by adding a new type of tractor in 1928, the auto patrol grade tractor which advanced the road making process forever, making the process of grading and leveling roads 10 times easier. Creating its first wheel tractor in 1941, Caterpillar had a huge impact on World War I by providing the tractor to allies of the United States. With the creation of its first bulldozer type tractor in 1945, Caterpillar advanced the tractor world but proving a line of bulldozer tractors starting with the D1 and building its current largest bulldozer, the D11. Beginning to expand worldwide with its first overseas subsidiary in England in 1950, Caterpillar also expanded its products and services in the next 50 years from making equipment to help the scientists in Antartica explore to moving into the solar turbine world, Caterpillar moved from making tractors to harvest wheat