Caterpillar diesel D8 tractor with LeTourneau bulldozer building logging roads near Aberdeen, Washington

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View of Caterpillar diesel D8 tractor with LeTourneau bulldozer building logging roads near Aberdeen, Washington. Label on back: "Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, Il. Rec'd from R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. Date taken, Sept. 1941. Model, D8. Owner, Morrow Logging Co., 110 16th St., Hoquiam, Wash. Description of work, 'Caterpillar,' diesel D8 tractor with LeTourneau bulldozer building and maintaining logging roads near Aberdeen, Washington. Working 8 hours a day on 4 gals. 6-1/2 [cents] fuel per hour. Logging with arch through mud and water." Handwritten on back: "Bulldozers."

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Resource ID:: na032562
Subject:: Caterpillar tractors; Bulldozers; Roads--Design and construction--Washington (State)--Aberdeen; Automotive Council for War Production--Archives; Photographic prints
Date:: 1941-09
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Location:: MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Bulldozers, 86:2
Negative Number:: 40771
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.