The Poclain Thread "Vive le France"!!

[Pascal]

For Poclain's fans, the french association "Génération Deux" has done an english version of the book on Poclain history "La mémoire vive". this book will be avaibable in Intermat next month.
Many news and differents picture on this english version. Hope you have understand all I write, poor french man lol.

[clockworklozenge1]

http://photostp.free.fr/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5709&start=460

See the final pages for the amazing restoration of a poclain 1000ck mining excavator !!

btw right click your mouse should offer a translate option so the whole site can be viewed in readable english :

[Richard S]

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[Gavin Phillips]

Has there ever been a book published dealing with the company history of Poclain? As one of the early hydraulic excavator pioneers, it'd be great to learn about the company at large.

[Neversweat]

Has there ever been a book published dealing with the company history of Poclain? As one of the early hydraulic excavator pioneers, it'd be great to learn about the company at large.

A new project for Jeremy after the excellent Hymac book

Steve.

[Jeremy Rowland]

Has there ever been a book published dealing with the company history of Poclain? As one of the early hydraulic excavator pioneers, it'd be great to learn about the company at large.

A new project for Jeremy after the excellent Hymac book

Steve.

Thanks Steve but you will find that Poclain's history has already been covered by a group of French enthusiasts, a link to their book can be found here:

http://www.fondation-poclain.com/crbst_16.html

As you can see there is an English version.

Jeremy

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The only photo I have of a couple ofBradshaws hire plant's Poclain machines
This was taken in the plant depot at Stibbington near Peterborough about 1980.

[bsbplant]

That looks like 2 Priestmans on the back of that low loader

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That looks like 2 Priestmans on the back of that low loader

You are right Brian " I is stupid" sorry

[dieseldogg]

I understood Poclain were still in the business of supplying hydrostatic transmission components and complete systems to rest of the industry, including CAT and other major brand names.
Majoring on their hydraulic motor expertise basically?
Marcus
edit, (post Widgit)
Comment above was in response to the post somewhere buried in this thread that it was a pity that the Poclain company were no more/not building excavators any more
I too had gathered they were "no more" until I recently found a very active Poclain company website, still family owned too. I liked that.