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	Caterpillar track - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Caterpillar tracks are large (modular) tracks used on tanks, construction equipment and certain other off-road vehicles.
		Steam powered tractors using a form of caterpillar track were reported in use during the Crimean War in the 1850s.
		An effective caterpillar track was invented and implemented by Alvin Lombard, for the Lombard steam log hauler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caterpillar_track (999 words)

	Caterpillar D9 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Caterpillar D9 is a large track-type tractor (commonly referred to as a bulldozer) with caterpillar tracks designed and manufactured by Caterpillar Tractor Company.
		The D9 is a series of heavy tracked-type tractors, propelled by Caterpillar tracks and usually used as bulldozers.
		teddy bear) — is a Caterpillar D9 tractor that was modified by the IDF and Israeli Defense Industries to increase the survivability of the dozer in hostile environments and enable it to withstand heavy attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caterpillar_D9 (2094 words)

	Caterpillar Tractor -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Caterpillars have six true legs (being hexapods) on the thorax, up to four pairs of prolegs on the middle segments of the abdomen, and sometimes a single pair of prolegs on the last abdominal segment.
		Caterpillar is, according to their corporate website, "the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines." Famous for their products featuring the caterpillar track, Caterpillar produces a wide range of heavy equipment, mainly engineering vehicles, including the Caterpillar D9 bulldozer.
		Caterpillar is one of the companies whose stock is tracked in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/28/caterpillar-tractor.html (1785 words)

	Bulldozer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although these machines began as modified farm tractors, they became the mainstay for major civil construction projects, and found their way into use by military construction units throughout the world.
		With heavy bulldozers such as the Caterpillar D9 and the D11 the lava is shattered allowing practical agriculture for the wine industry.
		One example is that loader tractors were created by removing the blade and substituting a large volume bucket and hydraulic arms which can raise and lower the bucket, thus making it useful for scooping up earth and loading it into trucks.
	www.theopenencyclopedia.com /wiki/index.php/Bulldozer (1154 words)

	Caterpillar
		Caterpillar had its beginnings in the twilight years of the 19th Century when two pioneers of the tractor industry each experimented with gasoline-powered tractor engines.
		Caterpillar is dedicated to the well being of its employees worldwide and to that of the world itself.
		Caterpillar is a leader in the development of construction and mining equipment, but their expertise and commitment don't stop there.
	www.onlineshoes.com /brandinfo.asp?type=brand&brandid=45&about=company (208 words)

	SLO County Farm Bureau-March 1999 Bulletin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tractors designed decades ago are definitely a far cry from the sleek modern marvels we see in the field today.
		The company made various diesel and gas models throughout the 1930s, ranging in size and horsepower to effectively handle all types of agricultural applications large or small.
		In 1911, under the guidance of Deere and Company's third president, William Butterworth, six non-competing farm equipment companies were brought into the Deere organization, establishing the company as a full-line manufacturer of farm equipment.
	www.slofarmbureau.org /OldNews/march99.html (4662 words)

	Caterpiller Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The tracks kept the heavy tractors from sinking in mud or dirt, and during the war British and American forces successfully used such treads on their armoured tanks.
		The new company was incorporated as the Caterpillar Tractor Company and headquarters were moved to Illinois.
		The company had a long history of trade with the Soviet Union, going back to the 1920s when Caterpillar sold the Soviet Union $18,000,000 worth of construction equipment to facilitate the country's first Five Year Plan (1929-1933).
	www.holt.org /caterpillar.html (189 words)

	Caterpillar Inc. -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Caterpillar is one of the companies whose (The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)) stock is tracked in the (Click link for more info and facts about Dow Jones Industrial Average) Dow Jones Industrial Average.
		Caterpillar was one of the "excellent" companies featured in the 1982 best-selling management book In Search of Excellence by business management guru (Click link for more info and facts about Tom Peters) Tom Peters.
		A coalition of groups, is calling on people to protest Caterpillar's sales of D9, D10, and D11 bulldozers to (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine) Israel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/caterpillar_inc.htm (711 words)

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		This case arose on Caterpillar's claim for refund based upon the combined unitary method, to which the State acceded.
		Thus, if Caterpillar and its subsidiaries conducted their business solely within the United States, the foregoing precedents we have cited would establish that the Illinois combined apportionment method would pass muster under the Commerce Clause for purposes of allocating its income among the several states.
		Caterpillar did not appeal this aspect of the case to the Illinois Supreme Court (J.S. App.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1982/sg820232.txt (4163 words)

	Curcio v. Caterpillar, Inc., (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Curcio argued Caterpillar was negligent in designing and manufacturing the loader and in failing to warn of foreseeable dangers associated with its use and maintenance.
		The trial court had initially ruled Caterpillar was precluded from contesting the legal relationship between Curcio and Turner because of a finding by the probate court that Curcio and Turner were common-law husband and wife.
		Pursuant to Caterpillar's motion, the trial court reversed this ruling, noting the probate court proceeding was an uncontested matter to which Caterpillar had not been made a party.
	www.law.sc.edu /ctapp/3307.htm (3650 words)

	Green Magazine - Articles - Featured Model
		The tractor companies which had survived the shakeout caused by the Depression of 1920-23 had for the most part recovered quite well, producing tractors and profits.
		Caterpillar, the acknowledged leader in crawler-type tractors for both agriculture and industry, had found itself in need of a wheel-type tractor for certain markets that it served, but was reluctant to produce such tractors.
		Caterpillar would also virtually give Deere it's combine business, in which it was no longer interested, which would give Deere both hillside and large level-land pull-type combines, a market segment Deere wanted to enter, but did not want to spend the time and money to develop it's own line of large combines.
	www.greenmagazineonline.com /hobbs.html (2484 words)

	CHAPTER XII: Tanks
		The tractor plants at Stalingrad, Kharkov, and Chelyabinsk, erected with almost complete American assistance and equipment, and the Kirov plant in Leningrad, reconstructed by Ford, were used from the start to produce Soviet tanks, armored cars, and self-propelled guns.
		Three postwar tractor plants were in operation by 1950: the Valdimir plant opened in 1944, the Lipetsk plant in 1947, the Minsk plant and the Kharkov assembly plant in I950.
		The Stalingrad Tractor Plant, the largest in Europe, was a packaged factory built in the United States, dismantled, shipped to the USSR, and re-erected at Stalingrad under the supervision of American engineers.
	reformed-theology.org /html/books/best_enemy/chapter_12.htm (3404 words)

	HOH Group - Engineering Solutions for Government and Industry
		Caterpillar Tractor's parts facility at Morton, Illinois was chosen to be a central point in the midwest area for the painting of tractor parts.
		Tractor parts were brought in by truck from other parts of the state and loaded onto a conveyor system which then carried each item through a washer, a rinse process, a dryer, and then to one of two paint spray systems, depending upon the part.
		As part of the five-year program of expansion, modernization and rearrange-ment underway at Caterpillar Tractor's East Peoria plant, HOH is engineering modifications and additions within, and to, several buildings of this complex of approximately seven million square feet.
	www.hohgroup.com /farm.html (800 words)

	Foley Equipment Company of Central and Southwestern Kansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tractor Company in Peoria, Illinois until he had the opportunity to assist in a newly formed dealership in Wichita.
		Caterpillar introduced industrial and truck engines and Foley Tractor responded by expanding with an engine division and industrial equipment division.
		Serving 49 counties in Kansas, Foley Equipment Company is headquartered in Wichita with full-service facilities in Dodge City, Salina and Great Bend.
	www.foleyeq.com /history.asp (365 words)

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		CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO. 1331 ees as a supervisor.
		CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO. 1333 spondent has not shown that it was so offensive, defama- tory, or opprobrious as to remove it from the protection of the Act, and that the discipline imposed on Wagner therefore violated Section 8(a)(1) of the Act.
		Caterpillar Tractor Company is an employer en- gaged in commerce within the meaning of Section 2(2), (6), and (7) of the Act.
	www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/276/276-1323.txt (7944 words)

	FTZ Federal Register Archives
		Caterpillar is a producer of industrial engines, and earthmoving and construction equipment with world-wide sales of over $5 billion.
		Site 3 is the 412-acre East Peoria Plant, the company's main facility for manufacturing agricultural, earthmoving, construction, and materials-handling machinery and equipment, such as track-type tractors, loaders and pipelayers.
		Subzone status for Caterpillar would exempt the company from duty payments on the foreign parts and materials it uses for its exports.
	ia.ita.doc.gov /ftzpage/fr/84/d29-84.html (623 words)

	ipedia.com: Caterpillar D9 Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The size and weight of the larger track-type tractors dictate that they are used primarily for major projects.
		Caterpillar Inc. does not manufacture a military version of the D9 per se, but the same attributes that make the D9 popular for major construction projects make it desirable for military applications as well, and it has been found to be of particular utility by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).
		Armored bulldozers are a standard tool of Combat engineering battalions, and the IDF has gained some notoriety for their use of armored tractors in the Al-Aqsa Intifada for urban warfare.
	www.ipedia.com /caterpillar_d9.html (1373 words)

	History with Pictures
		Goodloe continued the company alone for the 83 counties in the northern half of the state (as Yancey Bros., Inc.) while Earle moved his operations to Albany (as the Yancey Tractor Company) to become the Caterpillar dealer for the southern half of Georgia.
		Stephenson completed his purchase of the company in February of 1996 and assumed the responsibilities of leading "The Nation's Oldest Caterpillar Dealer" into their tenth decade of service to the northern half of Georgia.
		Add to these examples the company's fleet of over 200 parts and service vehicles at fifteen facilities, plus the 150 parts drop locations across the state, and you have the definition of a full service Caterpillar dealer.
	www.yanceybros.com /histpics.htm (2510 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - The Holt Tractor
		The Holt was an American agricultural tractor which used a so-called 'caterpillar' track in place of wheels and which inspired Colonel Ernest Swinton to propose British sponsorship of tank development.
		The caterpillar track was in fact invented by a British company named Hornsby based in Grantham in 1905.
		In 1909 they demonstrated a tracked tractor to the British Army; impressed, the army awarded Hornsby a prize for their idea: however their idea was not taken up.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/holttractor.htm (222 words)

	Great Oregon Steam Up - July 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The oldest tractor in the show leads off the parade - it's a Case dating from the late 1800's.
		This 1911 Aultman-Taylor tractor is a great example of the steam tractors of that era.
		Holt Tractor was a forerunner of the now-famous Caterpillar Tractor company.
	home.comcast.net /~billdiane/SteamUp2002/SteamUp02.html (1391 words)

	Closing Bell Marks Caterpillar Inc.'s 75th Anniversary Listing on the New York Stock Exchange
		For more than 75 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been building the world's infrastructure and, in partnership with its worldwide dealer network, is driving positive and sustainable change on every continent.
		With 2003 sales and revenues of $22.76 billion, Caterpillar is a technology leader and the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines.
		Caterpillar Inc. - 75 Years on the New York Stock Exchange -- The company was listed on December 2, 1929 under the name Caterpillar Tractor Company.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-02-2004/0002561032&EDATE= (517 words)

	Agricultural Machinery
		Benjamin Holt: The Story of the Caterpillar Tractor (Stockton, CA: University of the Pacific, 102 p.).
		Holt, Benjamin, 1849-1920; Caterpillar Tractor Company--History; Businesspeople--United States--Biography; Stockton (Calif.)--History.
		Raterpillar Tractor Company--History; Caterpillar Tractor Company; Tractor industry--United States; Consolidation and merger of corporations--United States.
	www.kipnotes.com /AgriculturalMachinery.htm (1240 words)

	Caterpillar tractor - NOTICE Decision filed 05/11/05. The text of this decision may be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Complete listing of Caterpillar tractor parts, manuals and other items for the Caterpillar farm tractors.
		Mar 20, 1994 : Lubicon Mailout, The Dismemberment of the Lubicon
		A huge Caterpillar tractor is being loaded onto a Fairchild C-82 Packet, probably at McChord Field or Great Fall, Montana, for an eventual destination at
	www.globalinfogroup.com /glig/caterpillar-tractor.html (339 words)

	What is the Caterpillar Club? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Not long after our conversation, I received literature about the Caterpillar Tractor Company from a relative, showing a design for their advertisements, that is, a wavy streak with 'Caterpillar' written across its face.
		I immediately got in touch with Timmerman and Hutton, and suggested to them that the organization be called 'Caterpillar Club' for several reasons, namely: The parachute main sail and lines were woven from the finest silk.
		I had thought that the Irvin Air Chute company was the only company to issue caterpillar pins.
	www.caterpillarclub.org /irvin/irvin.htm (558 words)

	Company News On Call
		John will help us establish a new standard for the company's performance and be an active voice in the financial community to communicate the Trimble story." Berglund added, "We would like to thank Mary Ellen Genovese for her contributions as interim chief financial officer.
		While at Level One, he played a significant role in the completion of the company's initial public offering, completed a secondary public offering, and built the finance and administrative organizations.
		The company provides end-user and OEM solutions for diverse applications including surveying, mapping/GIS, agriculture, construction, mining, military, commercial aviation, automotive, vehicle tracking and timing.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/08-24-1999/0001008889 (567 words)

	TRACTORS
		Tractors come in farm/agricultural (row crop and wide), industrial, garden, and truck/highway models and may be wheeled (usually with tires) or tracked (and, 'way back, both).
		The distinction between a tractor and a bulldozer is noted above, as is the distinction between a tractor and a crawler.
		This goes on - a Caterpillar salesman of 11 years standing, who had been a rep for 12 years for a competitor, in Baltimore, Maryland, says that he saw Joe E. Brown (he of the big mouth, of all actors) starring in "Alexander Botts and the Earthworm Tractor Company" in 1978 at a sales school.
	home.att.net /~Berliner-ultrasonics/tractors.html (2613 words)

	TractorData.com - Caterpillar
		The Caterpillar Tractor Company was formed in 1925 with the merger of the Holt and Best companies.
		Although heavily involved in the farming market during the early and mid 20th century, Caterpillar began to focus on construction equipment as tractors with rubber tires came to dominate the farming market.
		In 2002, Caterpillar sold the line to AGCO who manufacture the tractors under the AGCO Challenger brand and sell through Caterpillar dealers.
	www.tractordata.com /td/cat.html (168 words)

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