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Published Nationally ® November 11 2018 Vol. IX • No. 23
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HOLT CAT Celebrates 85 Years With Vintage Iron By Craig Mongeau CEG EDITOR IN CHIEF
Komatsu Equipment Co. Breaks Ground on $47M Facility...12
Rubble Master Welcomes Dealer to Northern Ireland...15
Power Equipment Company Opens Facility in Greeley, Colorado...24
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Past, present and future converged Oct. 26 through 28, 2018, in San Antonio, Texas. HOLT CAT hosted the 2018 Antique Caterpillar Machine Owners Club (ACMOC) National Show, but that wasn’t all — the longtime respected Cat dealer also celebrated its 85th anniversary with an employee event and showcased its recently completed spacious and state-of-art headquarters. ACMOC in San Antonio … It Just Made Sense The antique Caterpillar show’s setting and its host proved to be the most logical choices, outside of Peoria. “Our father and grandfather have always been collectors, so we have a long history of going to these shows,” said Peter J. Holt, CEO and general manager of
HOLT CAT’s new headquarters building in San Antonio, Texas. The company is the largest Caterpillar dealer in the United States.
Saluting Navy Seabees
Seabees with the 53rd Naval Construction Battalion, build camera towers prior to atomic bomb testing on Bikini Atoll, July 1946. Read story on page 32.
Recycling Section ............15-23 U.S. Navy Seabee Museum photo
Attachment & Parts Section .... ........................................ 33-37 Snow Section....................43-44 Truck & Trailer Section....49-52 Auction Section ...............55-57 Business Calendar ................56 Advertisers Index ..................58
HOLT CAT. “A couple of years ago a few of our employees became very engaged in ACMOC and wanted to bring a chapter to San Antonio. So we got the chapter started and got further involved and it just became a natural direction to have a show here. And then with almost divine timing it worked out that it was our 85th anniversary and we had just built our new headquarters. So it was just a really great confluence of exciting events that drew that show here that we could celebrate our foundational legacy and have some cool juxtaposition between our past and our present and future.” The foundational legacy Peter J. Holt alluded to is among the most important inventions in American manufacturing history and turned a see HOLT page 26