With worn-out trucks after World War II and plans laid out by the Federal Government to build the Interstate Highway System, truck production really took off in the 1950s. Companies and drivers who used International semi-trucks worked hard to deliver the goods. A visual feast of International heavy trucks at work in the 1950s. View and read about the vast array of large trucks International built during the 1950s. High quality large format photographs present these trucks in many configurations doing all kinds of work for all types of companies. Includes delivery trucks, tankers, garbage trucks, over-the-road trucks, off-highway trucks and much more.

Thanks to many years of research here is the illustrated chronicle of the legendary marque Gottwald, with its slewing, travelling, or crawler cranes, diggers and escavators… The history and the development of the marque, but also the analysis of the different machinery models.

This second volume completes the “Band 1”, with other details about the history and the development of the marque, but also the analysis of the different machinery models: slewing, travelling, crawler cranes that can raise up to 1 ton, firefighting machinery and special apparatus. A lot of images and some drawings show the models and the project of some of them.

The four-axis ONE TGA with 660 HP in detail. A lot of beautiful pictures of unbelievable employments and the description of the technology. A list of all the series H 95 is included. For all the heavy transports fans and the model construction amateurs.

Pictorial, historical and technical portrait of the tractors and logging trucks of the following makes: Skogsjan, Eco Log, Log Max, Menzi Muck, Kotschenreuther, Welte, Logset, FMG, Timberjack, Valtra, Claas, Hitachi etc.

75 years of this great marque from Bremen that built the first cranes for truck. Here is the history of the company, which already operated in the long-distance traffic before the Second World War, thanks also to a very rich photographic apparatus.

Terex-Demag mobile and telescopic cranes, which can work over 200 m height: here its models in details, through beautiful photos, technical datas and other interesting information.

The history and the development of their breathtaking technology of Scheu, Nicolas & Kamag, parent company of Group II. The book includes a very rich photographic apparatus.

The complete history and the pictorial portrait of the heavy trucks of the highest capacity classes produced by Mercedes Benz.

Western Kentucky represented, in the time period covered by this book from the 1950s-80s, the bulk of coal mining in North America. Attributed to in John Prine’s famous song ’’’Paradise,’’ Muhlenberg County is home to Kentucky’s first commercial coal mine named the McLean Drift Bank. At one point, Muhlenberg County produced more coal than any county, state, or country as the largest producer of coal in the world. The massive mining machines documented herein show how it was possible through vintage and colorful photography. Production statistics are detailed for each piece of equipment, laced with historical facts and stories about the mines and mining companies that operated them. Includes a rare look at some of the old draglines that have been re-started and are digging in Western Kentucky once again thanks to new technology.

The full history and technical details of Lkw trucks with a generous helping of photos, documents, drawings.