Western Wheeled Scraper Company. Concrete Road Building. Catalog No. 45 / [Title Page] Concrete Road Building. Concrete Road Construction. The Industrial Railway. Western Batch Boxes. Western Road Builders Truck. Western Road Builders Dump Car. Western Road Builders Service Car. Western Portable Track. Placing Industrial Track. Industrial Railways And The Batch-Box Direct-Charging System. Catalog No. 45.

Western Wheeled Scraper Company, Aurora, Illinois

Publication: Privately printed, ca 1915, Aurora, ca 1915

First edition. 11" x 8 1/2" in light gray printed wrappers with raised title in green. 16pp. [273]-286. Illustrations. Foreword. Uncommon catalog of equipment which played a crucial role in road building driven by the Good Roads Movement during the opening decades of the 20th century. Western Wheeled Scraper Co. had in 1904 perfected dump cars with 12 cubic yard capacity operated by air, and these became the backbone of earth moving operations both in railroad line building and road building across the country. This catalog advertises their industrial railways, aggregate loaders, material bins, dump cars, mixers feeding the batch boxes, the Western batch box direct-charging system, etc. Offers information on placing Western Industrial track along with diagram plans for doing so. Also laid in Bulletin 19-B, Western Dump Wagon, which touts their Western Dump Wagons, with steel-reinforced and extra wide wheels. In 1901, the Western Wheeled Scraper Co. and the F.C. Austin Manufacturing had formed a selling corporation known as Austin-Western Road Machinery Co. The company specialized initially in building scrapers. In 1916, President Wilson signed the Federal Aid Road Act enabling America to embark on a truly national highway and road construction campaign that continued to the end of the 1920s. Light soiling to pages and wrappers along with shelf label at upper left fore-edge, stamp for Contractors Machinery & Storage Co., and with rubbing to spine and light wear to the extremities. Still very good.