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    incorporated the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1892. Holt Manufacturing Company was the first company to successfully manufacture a continuous track...
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    with his brothers the Holt Manufacturing Company. The youngest of four brothers and eleven siblings, the children of William Knox Holt and first, Eliza Jane...
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    Holt tractors were a range of continuous track haulers built by the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California which were named after company...
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  • Around 1900 the company built a number of three wheeled road locomotives. The company was acquired by the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1908 after a legal...
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    plant. Best Manufacturing Company was acquired by Holt Manufacturing Company in 1908. In 1910, C. L. Best left Holt Manufacturing Company and formed his...
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    The Holt gas–electric tank was the first prototype tank built in the United States in a collaboration between the Holt Manufacturing Company (now Caterpillar...
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    merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company and the C. L. Best Tractor Company, creating a new entity, California-based Caterpillar Tractor Company. In 1986,...
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  • Services, U.S.-based adoption company Holt Manufacturing Company, progenitor of Caterpillar Holt McDougal, publishing company Holt Renfrew, Canadian department...
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    S.-produced, prototype armoured fighting vehicle built by the Holt Manufacturing Company (now Caterpillar Inc.). Developed sometime between late 1916 and...
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    renamed Holt & Moore. In 1876, Moore was murdered, and the mills were consolidated as the Thomas M. Holt Manufacturing Company. (Other members of the Holt family...
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    built by C. L. Best's Traction Company of San Leandro, California. Best was a rival of the Holt Manufacturing Company in producing caterpillar tracked...
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    merger of the C. L. Best Tractor Company and the Holt Manufacturing Company, that formed the Caterpillar Tractor Company, the Best 60 was renamed the Caterpillar...
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    (often pulled by teams of twenty or more horses). In 1911, the Holt Manufacturing Company of California, US produced a self-propelled harvester. In Australia...
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    Colean Manufacturing Company, which had manufactured farm implements and steam traction engines across town. Holt established their eastern manufacturing branch...
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    is a present-day brand from these days, starting out as the Holt Manufacturing Company. The first mass-produced heavy machine was the Fordson tractor...
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  • of the Holt Manufacturing Company, which later became the Caterpillar company. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Holt has a warm-summer...
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    of the Dickson Manufacturing Company (engines and compressors). It was reorganized in 1912 as the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company. During the next...
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    incorporation of the Holt Caterpillar Company were filed with the county clerk today....a branch company of Holt manufacturing company... Rice, James Montgomery...
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    their respective governmental administrations. Benjamin Holt of the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California was the first to file a US patent...
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  • Murray M. Baker (category Holt Manufacturing Company)
    sale. Baker alerted Pliny Holt of Holt Manufacturing Company to the opportunity. Baker joined the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1909 and became vice president...
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  • Heilman Machine Works ~Holt Manufacturing Company (became Caterpillar Inc.) ~Hooven, Owens & Rentschler Co. Huber Manufacturing Co. Illinois Thresher Co...
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    Haw River, North Carolina (category Company towns in North Carolina)
    he was forced to leave town. The mills became the Thomas M. Holt Manufacturing Company. Haw River developed as a typical mill village in which the mill...
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    president of the company that eventually became Caterpillar. Baker convinced the Holt Manufacturing Company to move to Peoria in 1909. Holt merged with C...
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    tracks. Caterpillar Tractor Company began in 1925 from a merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company and the C. L. Best Tractor Company, an early successful manufacturer...
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    so much power that they were ineffective for heavy vehicles. Holt Manufacturing Company (the ancestor of Caterpillar Inc.) whose track design influenced...
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    Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited (doing business as Holt Renfrew and colloquially Holt's) is a Canadian luxury department store chain founded in 1837 by William...
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  • lawyer known as "The King of Torts" Benjamin Holt (1849–1920), inventor and founder of Holt Manufacturing Company Tillie Ehrlich Lewis (1901–1977), businesswoman...
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    the firms Feurich and Steinway & Sons. 1904 – Benjamin Holt of the Holt Manufacturing Company invents one of the first practical continuous tracks for...
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  • (born 1954), CEO of Stonyfield Farm Benjamin Holt (1849–1920), inventor; founder of Holt Manufacturing Company Levi Hutchins (1761–1855), clockmaker, inventor...
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    Doble steam car (category Defunct manufacturing companies based in Michigan)
    Detroit steam motors were used in two prototype tanks. One was the Holt Manufacturing Company steam-powered tank. This tank underwent trials in February 1918...
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