Incredible tractors, bulldozers, military tanks, and heavy machinery dating back to 1902, fill this down-to-earth collection. More than 50 original and restored machines are featured at work and show, including early steamers, the second Best ever built, pioneering diesel tractors, plus a variety of today's heavy machinery. Includes Russell and Letourneau Grader models.
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RAndy Leffingwell is an MBI best-selling author whose most recent works are Corvette fifty Years, Mustang Forty Years, and John Deere: A History of the Tractor. He resides in Santa Barbara, California.
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Everything was supposed to be easier once they got to the West, Daniel Best's brother Samuel Best, older by a decade and living in Oregon for seven years, had written back to the family from Portland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
starting engine clutch, front tiller wheel, drawbar horsepower, combined harvester, belt horsepower, steam traction engine, crawler tractors, tractor company, track rollers, traction engines, bulldozer blade, wheel tractors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Daniel Best, Benjamin Holt, San Francisco, San Leandro, United States, Pliny Holt, Board of Directors, Los Angeles, Holt Manufacturing, Holt Model, World War, Russell Grader, Andy Kerr, Best Model, Hi-Way Yellow, Oscar Starr, Ben Holt, Best Gas Traction Company, Charles Holt, Fred Heidrick, Hal Higgins, Joseph Heidrick, Rock Island, War Department, Albert Dunning New!
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Everything was supposed to be easier once they got to the West, Daniel Best's brother Samuel Best, older by a decade and living in Oregon for seven years, had written back to the family from Portland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
starting engine clutch, front tiller wheel, drawbar horsepower, combined harvester, belt horsepower, steam traction engine, crawler tractors, tractor company, track rollers, traction engines, bulldozer blade, wheel tractors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Daniel Best, Benjamin Holt, San Francisco, San Leandro, United States, Pliny Holt, Board of Directors, Los Angeles, Holt Manufacturing, Holt Model, World War, Russell Grader, Andy Kerr, Best Model, Hi-Way Yellow, Oscar Starr, Ben Holt, Best Gas Traction Company, Charles Holt, Fred Heidrick, Hal Higgins, Joseph Heidrick, Rock Island, War Department, Albert Dunning New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Construction Equipment by James Emerson Russell on page 153
- Kern County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 22
- Paul Bunyan (Walt Disney's American Classics) in Front Matter
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