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| Welcome to Forklift Guy's World Forklift Encyclopedia. Feel free to browse, there is no cost to visitors. Forklift companies and those in related industries should check our advertising rates. | ||
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| The genesis for this site were the questions I've spent most of the last few years answering: Who is... | ||
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| A lot of manufacturers have come and gone in the last century. Many Yale dealers don't know that they are also Automatic dealers, just as many Clark dealers don't know that they are Ross dealers. | ||
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| And the amalgamations continue as Toyota bought - Lift Rite? Yes, Toyota bought Lift Rite, as a part of BT Lift. And Prime Mover, Raymond, and now is a sub dealer for one model produced by Conveyancer, who was bought by Coventry Climax, who was bought by Kalmar LMV (not �to be confused with Kalmar AC which is owned by Komatsu Forklift America, who also owns 10% of Fiat OM-Pimespo, and is 10% owned by Linde AG, who owns Lansing Bagnall, Lansing Henley, Still, Wagner, Fenwick, Peg, Saxby, Fiat, OM-Pimespo, Moto-Truc, Baker, etc. | ||
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| Oh, and BT is the Clark Europe dealer for Sweden... | ||
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| Is management at Toyota aware of all of the above? | ||
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| I'm probably one of the few people left who even know what a Raymond E3RCU is, but there are still running examples out there (as of 1998 Sears Canada had some in their distribution center on Rexdale Boulevard in Etobicoke). | ||
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| For that matter how many of us remember what a Ready-Power system, or a carbon pile is? | ||
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| I've made a hobby over the last 20 years of trying to keep up with the changes in the industry. The World Forklift Encyclopedia is my attempt to track the companies, and the technologies. | ||
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