“ LETS GO DIESEL! “ 1930s CATERPILLAR DIESEL ENGINES & INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT PROMO FILM 14004
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This film “Let’s Go Diesel!“ was presented by the Caterpillar Tractor Co. to promote their diesel engines and industrial equipment. Caterpillar Inc. remains one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction equipment. The company originated from a merger between Holt Manufacturing Company and C. L. Best Tractor Company. It is headquartered in Irving, Texas. The film was made ’s and was shot in various locations: Florida, Southern Illinois, Kansas, Washington State, New York, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Dryden, Texas.
The film opens by showing the village of the Aztec Gold Mine in Baldy, New Mexico at 0:38. The film then shows how the mine cars operate at 0:52. Two 125-horsepower diesel engines that drive all of the machinery at the mill are shown at 1:37. The mud pump is shown at 2:00. The four units operate on “75 cents of fuel an hour” at 2:08. In the Southern Illinois oil field, two 6-cylinder engines drive a sludge pump, draw works, and a rotary drill on 36 cents worth of fuel an hour at 2:29. D-belts are used on the sludge pump while the Drawworks and Rotary Drill are operated by dual connected engines at 2:43. The film shows a Sputter working in the Kansas Oil Field at 2:49. Sand pumping is an ideal job for diesel power, the video shows sand being pumped at 3:35. The diesel engine was installed on a hydraulic dredge in Florida, it is shown at 3:50. The tow boat Panama is shown, and the narrator says it is also powered by a diesel engine at 4:05. A Link Belt steam shovel used to make a road in the state of Washington is also powered by a diesel engine, it is shown at 4:45. In Georgia, the cotton farm benefits from the diesel engine, using it to bale cotton. Road building vehicles also use the Caterpillar diesel, such as the Buffalo Springfield roller shown at 5:50. The laundromat too, uses a diesel engine to operate their machines at 6:40. A New York manufacturer installed a diesel engine in its rubber factory, shown at 7:10. Grain elevators are also operated by diesel engines; the film shows this at 8:08. A 60-horsepower engine is shown in a Swift & Co. poultry store, keeping the rooms the perfect temperature at 8:27. Ice for railroad cars is manufactured by a machine powered by a diesel engine, which is shown at 8:50. A diesel powered generator runs everything from lights to the ice cream machine at a drugstore in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, shown at 9:09. A diesel engine also powers an airbase in Dryden, Texas shown at 9:57. Carnival cars too, are able to run because of diesel engines, shown at 10:05. Film ends at 10:52.
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