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On this Caterpillar roll the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The company is the world’s largest manufacturer of construction equipment. 1925 merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company and the C.

Best Tractor Company, creating a new entity, California-based Caterpillar Tractor Company. Additionally, the company licenses the Cat phone brand of toughened mobile phones and rugged smartphones since 2012. Benjamin Holt, one of the founding fathers of Holt Manufacturing Company. The company traces its roots to the steam tractor machines manufactured by the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1890. Two Holt 45 gasoline crawler tractors teamed up to pull a long wagon train in the Mojave Desert during construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1909. Another solution considered was to lay a temporary plank road ahead of the steam tractor, but this was time-consuming, expensive, and interfered with earthmoving. Holt thought of wrapping the planks around the wheels.

77, with a set of wooden tracks bolted to chains. Sons in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, developed a steel plate-tracked vehicle, which it patented in 1904. This tractor steered by differential braking of the tracks, and did not require the forward tiller steering wheel for steering, making it the first to do so. Company photographer Charles Clements was reported to have observed that the tractor crawled like a caterpillar, and Holt seized on the metaphor.

A postcard showing the Caterpillar Tractor Co. On February 2, 1910, Holt opened up a plant in East Peoria, Illinois, led by his nephew Pliny Holt. The addition of a plant in the Midwest, despite the hefty capital needed to retool the plant, proved so profitable that only two years later, the company employed 625 people and was exporting tractors to Argentina, Canada, and Mexico. On January 31, 2017, the company announced plans to move their headquarters from Peoria to Deerfield, Illinois, by the end of 2017.