It All Started for Caterpillar on Thanksgiving Day

Some say it all started for Caterpillar in a farm field in Northern California on Thanksgiving Day. In 1904, Benjamin Holt successfully tested what would become the first commercially successful dozer. He would later call his machines “Caterpillars” – hence the name our company has today. The future of tracked heavy equipment opened up before him and his legacy is, as they say, history.

 

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First dozer operating one year after it was first tested on Thanksgiving Day.

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Benjamin Holt sitting on the back of the first dozer.

Benjamin Holt’s “Caterpillar” tracks on the first dozer.
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Benjamin Holt’s “Caterpillar” tracks on the first dozer.

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