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At La Pointe, Cadotte married Ikwesewe, the daughter of the head of the White Crane clan of the Anishinaabe. This was an advantageous marriage, as the males of the Cranes were selected as the hereditary chiefs of the Lake Superior band. Cadotte became the lead trader on the south shore of Lake Superior, and would remain so for decades.
During World War II, Brockway manufactured the B666 heavy truck, including the B666 Daybrook M-II-A bridge erector [2] and C666 Quick Way crane, [3] as well as G547 and G690 6-ton 6×6 bridging trucks, part of a standard design series also built by Corbitt and White. G547 "Treadway" trucks had a large hoist on the rear for self-unloading, while ...
The prototype steam tractor was a single-cylinder design but in 1906 a compound-cylinder version was produced, and this proved to be by far the most popular version with customers. [12] In 1908 the RAC organised a trial of competing makers' steam tractors to ascertain the best. Charles Burrell & Sons entered engine number 2932, a standard ...
The July 1943 Ordnance Publications for Supply Index (OPSI); page 68) sums up in detail, the coverage of Group G as: "Armored, half-track, and scout cars; gun, howitzer, and mortar motor carriages; cargo, mortar, personnel, half-track and universal carriers; armored amphibian, light, medium, and heavy tanks; light, medium, heavy, crane and amphibian/track-type tractors; wheeled tractors ...
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The Crane Model 3 was a six-cylinder car offered only as a chassis. The chassis was priced at $8,000 (equivalent to $246,626 in 2023), the highest priced American chassis on the market. Crane favored Brewster & Co. as a coachbuilder and most Crane automobiles were bodied by that firm. Only about 20 Crane Model 3s were made in 1912 and 1913.