Classic pictures Updated 13/04/2024

[Jeremy Rowland]

Poclain had big range of machines and some seemed huge by the standards then.

They were a huge concern with manufacturing plants set up in many different countries, even one in Japan, they made what was the world's largest fully hydraulic excavator when they launched the EC1000 around 1974 think from memory it tipped the scales at 147tons.

Jeremy

[FOWLER MAN]

A little known fact.
The Poclain truck mount illustrated below with geometry not unlike the TU in Steve's post was made in the UK.
It's on a Fordson Thames 6x4 chassis.
Fred

[pv83]

Looking at the lowloader photos, surely some of the 4x2 units must have been overloaded on the drive axle?
Also, is it me or is there a severe lack of anything obvious holding some of these dozers onto the wagon?

Different times eh...

[pv83]

Poclain had big range of machines and some seemed huge by the standards then.

They were a huge concern with manufacturing plants set up in many different countries, even one in Japan, they made what was the world's largest fully hydraulic excavator when they launched the EC1000 around 1974 think from memory it tipped the scales at 147tons.

Jeremy

Didn't knew they had a plant in Japan as well Jeremy... talking about an eye opener...

What happened to said plant when Poclain went belly up? Did it then fell into the hands of Samsung/Hitachi/others?

[Jeremy Rowland]

Poclain had big range of machines and some seemed huge by the standards then.

They were a huge concern with manufacturing plants set up in many different countries, even one in Japan, they made what was the world's largest fully hydraulic excavator when they launched the EC1000 around 1974 think from memory it tipped the scales at 147tons.

Jeremy

Didn't knew they had a plant in Japan as well Jeremy... talking about an eye opener...

What happened to said plant when Poclain went belly up? Did it then fell into the hands of Samsung/Hitachi/others?

Patrick the Japanese plant was called Yutani-Poclain and they made the TY45 under license; not too sure what actually happened to Yutani I have a vague recollection that they went on to make their own machines but probably under a different name, I know that very early on in Poclain's history they opened a plant in Germany, they also had plants in Spain and Brazil although some of the foreign plants were closed when things got tough for them and while they were under the control of Case-Tenneco who eventually wholly owned Poclain. Case eventually made an agreement with the Japanese company Sumitomo to manufacture hydraulic excavators for them and that finished the Poclain production and I guess production of any American made Case hydraulic excavators.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Rowland]

Nice one Fred I never realised that Winget were associated with truck mounted Poclain excavators perhaps the unpopularity of the truck mounted machines lead Winget to concentrate more on dumpers?

Jeremy

[essexpete]

Nice one Fred I never realised that Winget were associated with truck mounted Poclain excavators perhaps the unpopularity of the truck mounted machines lead Winget to concentrate more on dumpers?

Jeremy

What a pig to manoeuvre and couple that with rocking about on a truck chassis!

[Neversweat]

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Steve

[Neversweat]

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Steve

[Jeremy Rowland]

Nice Poclain pics Steve from top to bottom; TY45, LY80, TP300, LY80 and LY80. Last pic with the JCB 'monkey business' by the look

Jeremy