Peterson's Custom Rubber-Tired Compaction Rollers

 

Peterson built these giant compactors for Army Corp of Engineers during WWII.

They were used to build airstrips in the islands of the South Pacific

 

  Pictured here in the yard of Peterson's second Hayward headquarters at A and Soto streets in the mid-1940s

 
 

 

Related Stories:

• Peterson During WWII

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