Title: Bobcat: Fifty Years of Opportunity 1958-2008
Author: Marty Padgett
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Copyright Date: 2007-10
ISBN: 0760332126
Type: Hardcover
Book condition: Very Good
Jacket condition: Very Good -

Notes: Clean, solid copy with gift inscription on first page, but no other writing, highlighting, marks, or creased page corners to text. Cover corners square; scuff to bottom of spine and jacket, leaving an small open/chipped area on bottom edge of jacket. Overall, jacket is glossy with a few surface flaws and very light edge wear - looks very good. Binding firm. Good copy for personal use.

About the Book

Marking the 50th anniversary of an icon of American industry, this book celebrates a half-century of Bobcat with brilliant images of these quintessentially American machines at work, including historical photographs and diagrams, alongside the full story of the only compact machines that have ever mattered.

Often imitated but never equaled, the Bobcat skid-steer loader was born when some hardy souls in the Northern Plains needed a new way to get work done. The pictures in these pages show how the Bobcat loader has been moving American industry ever since, joined over the years by Bobcat excavators and trenchers, utility trucks and more.

Bobcat Fifty Years chronicles the changes and innovations that have kept the company at the forefront of the nation's compact machinery makers--from the invention of the Bob-Tach quick-change attachment system to the introduction of the Big Bob, the Mini-Bob, and the M-700, the first hydrostatic loader of its size. Here, again and again, is evidence of why Fortune Magazine named the Bobcat one of "America's best"--one of the 100 American-made products that represent the best of their kind, anywhere in the world.

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