CATERPILLAR History 1960's - 1970's

1960's

1960 - California Several Caterpillar machines support the Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California.

1961-1966 - Kobe, Japan Nine Caterpillar machines are involved in the effort to push part of a mountain into the sea as part of the Kobe Bay Reclamation Project.
When contractors needed more machines for the project, Caterpillar machines won out over Komatsu machines after on-the-job competitive demonstrations.

1961-1967 - Pakistan More than 500 Caterpillar machines help construct the Mangla Dam.

1961-1968 - California Caterpillar machines help construct the Oroville Dam, one of the dams in the California Water Plan Project.

1961-1977 - Brazil Caterpillar machines help construct the Urubupunga Hydroelectric Complex.
The Urubupunga Hydroelectric Complex contains two dams - the Jupia and the Ilha Solteira. Around 150 Caterpillar machines helped construct this complex.

1962-1977 - India and Pakistan More than 450 Caterpillar machines work on one of the world's largest earthmoving projects - the Indus River Basin Project.
The Indus River Basin Project also included the Mangla and Tarbela Dams.

1962 - Santiago, Chile Caterpillar machines are the only machines in use on the construction of the La Paloma Dam.

1963-1964 - Panama Several Caterpillar machines help widen sections of the Panama Canal.

1963 - U.S. Around 800 Caterpillar machines help construct the 2,600-mile-long New York-Houston Pipeline.

1963-1967 - California A fleet of 150 Caterpillar machines help construct the San Luis Dam, one of the dams in the California Water Plan Project.

1963-1968 - British Columbia, Canada Caterpillar machines help construct the Portage Mountain Dam / W. A. C. Bennett Dam for the Peace River Power Project.
A total of 129 Caterpillar machines worked on this project, including 40 D9 Tractors and 51 600-series wheel tractor-scrapers.

1963-1970 - New Zealand Caterpillar machines help construct the Manapouri Hydroelectric Project.
Caterpillar machines dug tunnels, constructed underground powerhouses, and built access roads.

1963-1972 - Thailand Caterpillar machines help construct the Sirikit Dam.

1963-1978 - Venezuela Caterpillar machines help construct the Guri Dam / Raul Leoni Dam.

1963-1993 - South Africa Over 300 pieces of Caterpillar equipment are working on the Orange River Scheme project.
This project included three major dams, nine smaller dams, 51.5 miles of tunnels and several hydroelectric power stations.

1964 - U.S. Caterpillar machines are used to help install the first coast-to-coast underground telephone cable.
It took contractors five years to complete the 4,000-mile cable-laying project.

1964 - U.S. Caterpillar machines aid recovery efforts after a flood covers areas of California, Oregon and Washington.

1964-1968 - Nigeria Caterpillar machines help construct the Kainji Dam.

1964-1965 - New York Hundreds of Caterpillar machines help construct the fairgrounds, buildings and highway improvements for the 1964-1965 World's Fair.
Around 185 Caterpillar machines and engines are at work at any one time during construction of the 1964-1965 World's Fair. Caterpillar also set up an exhibit at the fair which featured a 16-foot long D9 Tractor assembly, a D398 Engine crankshaft, a 10-foot tall wheel scraper tire, a 1673 Truck Engine and illuminated Caterpillar display sign - all of which attracted a lot of attention from fair goers.

1964-1965 - U.S. Caterpillar machines helped construct several hundred launch sites for the Minuteman Missile System.
The Minuteman Missile System had around 1,000 missile sites in Missouri, South Dakota, North Dokota, Wyoming and Montana and Caterpillar machines assisted in the construction of hundreds of the launch sites. Contractors also installed over 150 Caterpillar diesel electric sets as standby power units for several of the sites.

1965 - California Caterpillar machines work on the California Water Plan Project.
The California Water Plan Project, which included the San Luis and Oroville Dams, stretched for 826 miles. In addition to working on the dams, Caterpillar machines helped to relocate roads and railroad tracks and construct connecting waterways, canals, lakes, tunnels and pipelines.

1965 - California Caterpillar machines help construct the Castaic Complex's freeway and water system.
This project included a 45-mile eight-lane freeway, the Castic Dam, the Pyramic Rock Dam, and numerous reservoirs, tunnels, and pipelines.

1965 - Newfoundland, Canada Caterpillar machines help construct the Bay d-Espoir Hydroelectric Project.

1965 - Switzerland Caterpillar machines help construct the Mattmark Dam.

1965-1967 - Canada Caterpillar machines help construct the Duncan Dam.

1965-1968 - British Columbia, Canada Twenty Caterpillar machines help construct the Arrow Dam / Hugh Keenleyside Dam.

1965-1968 - Australia Caterpillar machines help construct the Blowering Dam.
The Blowering Dam was the second largest of the 10 dams constructed as part of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme project.

1966 - Philippines Fifty Caterpillar machines help construct the Angat Dam.

1966-1967 - Italy, Austria, & Germany Caterpillar machines help construct the Transalpine Pipeline.
As many as 250 Caterpillar pipelayers, track-type tractors and track loaders, plus many Caterpillar engines worked on the 280-mile project at any one time.

1966-1968 - Grenoble, France Caterpillar machines help the people of Grenoble prepare for the 1968 Winter Olympic Games.
Caterpillar machines reshaped mountain slopes, built and improved roads, and prepared building sites.

1966-1973 - New York City, New York Caterpillar machines are used on the construction of the World Trade Center complex.
In addition to the Caterpillar machines used on the construction phase of the World Trade Center complex, Caterpillar engines were installed to provide a power source for the completed complex.

1967 - Montreal, Canada Caterpillar machines help construct and prepare sites for Canada's "Expo 67" World's Fair.

1967 - Nigeria, South Africa Caterpillar machines are being used on a construction project that will result in a 117-mile long highway.

1967 - Manitoba, Canada Caterpillar machines work on the construction of the Kettle Rapids Station portion of the Nelson River Power Project.

1967 - Iran and Russia Caterpillar machines help build a 600-mile long pipeline running through Iran and Russia.
Contractors ordered 54 new Caterpillar machines that were added to the Caterpillar fleets already at work on the 42-inch pipeline project.

1967 - British Columbia, Canada Thirty Caterpillar machines help construct the Duncan Dam.

1967 - Alberta, Canada Caterpillar machines help with the first major commercial production of oil from the Athabasca Oil Sands.
More than 150 Caterpillar machines worked to build roads, prepare processing plant sites, remove overburden from the oil sands deposits and build a 266-mile long pipeline and a 165-mile long pipeline.

1967 - Australia Forty-four Caterpillar machines and engines work on the construction of a 256-mile railroad between Mount Newman and Port Hedland.

1967-1968 - South America Caterpillar machines and engines help construct the 193-mile long Trans-Andean pipeline.

1967-1971 - Labrador, Canada More than 400 Caterpillar machines help construct the Churchill Falls Hydroelectric Complex.

1967-1973 - British Columbia, Canada Twenty-two Caterpillar machines and five Caterpillar electric sets work on the construction of Mica Dam.

1968 - Canada Contractors use Caterpillar machines to construct the Great Lakes Transmission Line, a 989-mile-long natural gas pipeline running from Manitoba to Ontario.

1968 - Ontario, Canada Many Caterpillar machines work to relocate a section of the Welland Canal, an important link on the St. Lawrence Seaway.

1968 - South Korea Contractors put 222 Caterpillar machines to work building a new highway from Pusan to Seoul.

1968-1976 - Pakistan Three hundred Caterpillar machines help construct the Tarbela Dam.

1969 - Mississippi Caterpillar machines aid clean-up and repair efforts following Hurricane Camille.

1969 - U.S. Caterpillar engines supply power for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
Caterpillar engines supplied the power for communications between the Apollo 11 spacecraft and all of the NASA tracking stations around the world. Not only were these communications vital to the safe landing of the spacecraft, but also hearing Neil Armstrong's first words from the moon would not have been possible without the power provided by Caterpillar engines.

1969 - Pakistan Seventy-one Caterpillar engines and fifteen Caterpillar machines work on a 58-mile-long highway project in Pakistan.

1969-1972 - Argentina Caterpillar machines help construct the Portezuelo Grande Dam.

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