OSHKOSH TRUCK COMPANY CORPORATE HISTORY & PROMOTIONAL FILM 33904
Vložit
- čas přidán 15. 05. 2017
- The dramatic theme music from “2001: A Space Odyssey” plays in the background as the Oshkosh Truck Corporation presents a brief history of the company. The narrator details the manufacturer’s humble beginnings in Wisconsin (mark 01:00) and we see still photographs from the company’s beginning in 1917. From there the film shows 4-wheel Oshkosh trucks in action on construction sites, in fields, and as plows that clear snow from roads. An aerial view of the company’s modern production facility is shown at mark 03:00 and a camera pans across the faces of some of its employees before the film again shows various trucks in action, all without narration. “The Oshkosh truck - a vehicle with greater dependability, higher performance, lower operating costs, and longer life,” the narrator concludes at mark 07:17.
Oshkosh Corporation, formerly Oshkosh Truck, is an American industrial company that designs and builds specialty trucks, military vehicles, truck bodies, airport fire apparatus and access equipment. The corporation also owns Pierce Manufacturing, a fire apparatus manufacturer. Based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the company employs 12,000 people around the world. It is organized in four primary business groups: access equipment, defense, fire and emergency, and commercial.
Founded in 1917 as the Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company, the company was created to build a severe-duty four-wheel-drive truck. After the first prototype was built, the company began to develop rapidly. This first four-wheel-drive truck, known today as "Old Betsy", is still owned by Oshkosh Corporation and housed in one of its assembly plants in Oshkosh. The vehicle still runs and is used frequently in demonstrations and parades.[4][5] The first mass-produced truck was the 2-ton Model A, with seven produced in 1918. The 3.5-ton Model B and 5-ton Model F followed. The Model TR, introduced in 1933, was a diversification for the company and was the first rubber tired earthmover ever built.
The Model 50-50, introduced in 1955, was the first truck created specifically for the hauling of concrete. The first ARFF built by Oshkosh was a W Series truck delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard in 1953. Oshkosh has also produced aircraft tow tractors, and in 1968 the company designed and built the U-30, 45 of which were built for the U.S. Air Force to tow the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft.
In 1976 the company won a U.S. Army contract to supply 744 M911 heavy equipment transporters, the first in a long line of U.S. Army contracts that now sees Oshkosh Defense as the sole supplier of medium and heavy tactical trucks to the U.S. Army and Marines.
On August 25, 2015, Oshkosh was awarded the U.S. military's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract. The initial JLTV award is valued at $6.75 billion for up to 16,901 vehicles. The procurement objective for JLTV stands at 54,599 vehicles (49,099 Army; 5500 Marines), the estimated program cost being $47.6 billion. JLTV will partially replace the AM General Humvee.
We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference."
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com
My next door neighbor drove a T-3000 at the STL airport, went out on Sunday mornings a couple times and rode around and sprayed some water, very impressive truck.
I plowed snow in Massachusetts for years. I had an opportunity to use an old 60's model during the Blizzard of 78. Never got stuck or hung up once.
I used an oshkosh that had a 24 foot wide blade to plow snow at an international airport for years. I still plow snow there on runways, concourses, etc, but i use newer machinery now but some of those oshgosh plows are still in use there.
How dependable were they? I'm thinking of buyng one.
Cool DC-10 at 5:33!
United airlines
The music is Thus Spake Zarathustra by Richard Strauss.
Wonderful episode, thank you Periscope👍🇺🇸
A couple of construction company's have purchased those and modified them to Super Dump trucks ,5' sides cab to end of frame length beds approximately 18 cubic yards fully loaded . Material just below top of rails to be street legal and tarped , offroad load it till it falls off ! !! Big pintle and a 3 axel Load King with 850 JD , tow rig ...
OSHKOSH b'y GOSH!
I have two of their trucks. A W616 and a W516-10.
How dependable were they? I'm thinking of buyng one.
Cargo loader 6:04
👍
remembers the old theme...its a oshkosh by gosh
That was for the overalls