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CATERPILLAR COMBINEBy Ivan Weaks4-7216-C Box 268 R.D. #2 Delta, Ohio 43515 Collectors of Caterpillar machinery should know that the company making Cats was created in 1925 by merger of the interests of the Holt Manufacturing Company and C. L. Best Company. Benjamin Holt and C. L. Best were competitors, but after 1925 their pooled skills produced many pieces of equipment which are known throughout the world, today. The Model 38 Caterpillar combine pictured here also has the Holt name on it. I believe the machine was built around 1930 as it is equipped with a small Cat 10 tractor engine. The engine is not the same as the D-10 Cat diesel tractor produced today. Very few of these machines still exist. I have heard of some in the western United States and I have seen pictures taken of the Hidrick brothers collection in California. In late July 1983, we took th... 805 of 1106 characters shown.
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