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18.11.2017, 23:40 Uhr
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Hello Kerst,
I also tried to find something about it and the single soure I found was in Stuard Anderson´s book “Telescopic Boom: The History of Mobile Hydraulic Crane Industry” (ISBM 13: 978 190 3077351; Publisher: Cranes Today / Wilmington Publishing, 2004). It fully confirms your assumption about Tor Trucks historic roots. Let me summerise the text from Chapter “2.2 Canada” on page 81 (This chapter is under the “Overview” and “2 North America” chapters):
1964 – The Australian Stu Johnson designs large truck crane carriers on behalf of American Hoist & Derrick, which manufactures it in its own plant in Ontario, Canada.
1966 – Stu Johnson sets up his own company “Consolidated Dynamics Ltd.” with production facility in Buttonville, Ontario, Canada to manufacture crane carrier.
1968 – A 6-axle crane carrier for a 160sht crane for American Hoist is designed and manufactured and in general the sleek “CD” low profile crane carrier gained wordwide acceptance. Consolidated Dynamics – also known as Consodyn – focus on large size crane carriers, because the small carriers are produced by the crane OEMs itself. Also in this year, a design for a 100sht crane carrier is presented. Pinguely in France begins to offer its cranes on CD carriers – see e.g. the GC lattice boom crane.
1970 – A 150sht crane carrier is designed and the carrier for the 80sht Grove TM800 truck crane - then largest telescopic crane in the world – is a CD design and manufactured in Canada. A relationship with Kato in Japan to supply crane carrier kits for their 80t and 120t telescopic truck cranes is been founded.
1972 – A crane carrier for a 250sht crane is introduced to the market. In this year, the new and larger plant in Mississauga, Ontarion, Canada is opend. The CD crane carriers are sold to all large well known American crane companies as Pettibone, Link-Belt, American Hoist, Bucyrus-Erie and Grove.
1975 – Consolidated Dynamics Ltd. supplied 60 crane carriers to Pettibone, which exported the complete cranes to Europe, but the carriers do not meet European road regulations and the cranes need to be re-shipped back to America. This economic disaster leads to the take over of Consolidated Dynamics Ltd. by Pettibone and it is re-named to Pettibone (Canada) Ltd. The company works well under the new ownership of Pettibone, but it restricted the sales options in general.
1986 – Pettibone (USA) goes into Chapter 11 of US bankruptcy code and Pettibone (Canada) Ltd. is sold to its managers and other investors. Two month after this transaction, the company is renamed “Tor Trucks Corporation”. Tor Trucks continues to supply crane carriers to American, Manitowoc and Link-Belt. Also special vehicles for the construction-, forestry- and snow-industry are designed and manufactured.
1987 – R.P.M. Tech Inc. based in Cap-Sante, Quebec, Canada, aquires Tor Trucks and is still the current owner.
1990s – Tor Trucks still designs and manufactures crane carriers in the 50sht to 300sht crane range for American, Link-Belt and Manitowoc. They are also responsible for the special vehicles – concrete pump chassis, mobile drill rigs and arial lift chassis.
Best regards
Christoph
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