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Rebuild a Caterpillar Model Twenty Tractor in Under Four Minutes

Posted April 23, 2019 9:00 AM by dstrohl

In 1925, the company we today know as Caterpillar was formed by the merger of Holt Manufacturing and the C.L. Best Tractor Company. Two years later, the firm’s first clean-sheet design, the Caterpillar Model Twenty, was launched, making it a cornerstone of the firm’s identity.

In 2013, Caterpillar opened the Doug Oberhelman Caterpillar Visitors Center at its Peoria, Illinois, headquarters, and a Model Twenty was sought for display in the Heritage Gallery. Ultimately, a 1928 Model Twenty with the serial number L1137 was selected, though it would ultimately take two derelict crawlers to make one complete tractor.

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04/23/2019 5:04 PM

Caterpillar (bus) YELLOW and John-Deere GREEN are the 'primary' colours of industry and agriculture.

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