Hymas Ford
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:56 pm
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Re: Hymas Ford
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 9:56 pm
Nice find Pete 
looks much like a Cosmotor excavator perhaps there was a link?
Jeremy
looks much like a Cosmotor excavator perhaps there was a link?Jeremy
Re: Hymas Ford
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 10:21 pm
Could also be a Richier machine they linked up with Ford or Ford bought them? Not sure which? To make the 360 excavators for Ford.
Jeremy
Jeremy
Re: Hymas Ford
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 7:19 pm
According to Peter Grimshaw's books Hymas(Hydrauliske maskiner) were a Norweigan firm dating back to 1904 that was involved in cconstruction equipment from 1955 originally specialising in tractor or truck-mounted cranes, hydraulic backhoe attachments and dental chairs.
Hymac offered the 7.5t '82-R' crawler excavator of 3/8 cu.yard capacity "throughout the 1980s" and was upgraded to the 8200.
Apparently from the late 1960's to mid 1980's they built hydraulic backhoes for Bolinder Munktell/BM Volvo.
In 1990 the company was renamed Hymax A/S and the 'Hymax' name used on the upgraded 8200 which was replaced by the 840 and joined in 1993 by the 8.7 t 1990.
Apaprently Hymas stopped building their own machines in 1997 and are now an importer/dealer for other OEMs:
https://www.hymax.no/
Hymac offered the 7.5t '82-R' crawler excavator of 3/8 cu.yard capacity "throughout the 1980s" and was upgraded to the 8200.
Apparently from the late 1960's to mid 1980's they built hydraulic backhoes for Bolinder Munktell/BM Volvo.
In 1990 the company was renamed Hymax A/S and the 'Hymax' name used on the upgraded 8200 which was replaced by the 840 and joined in 1993 by the 8.7 t 1990.
Apaprently Hymas stopped building their own machines in 1997 and are now an importer/dealer for other OEMs:
https://www.hymax.no/