nineteen-fifties
1950 Caterpillar Tractor Co. Ltd., Great Britain is established to better serve customers worldwide
1953 CAT's engine sales group is replaced with separate sales & marketing division. Engine
sales now account for approximately one-third of the company's total sales and revenues
1953 Peterson ships the first SnoCAT D7 to Thule Air Force Base in Greenland for nation's
Distant Early Warning System read story
1954 Peterson's Twin D8s are patented read story
1955 Ed Cryer becomes Peterson's first Parts & Service Sales Rep with dedicated truck
1955 Peterson featured on TV show: Richfield Success Stories aired on KGO read story
1956 Peterson's first international product support package to Morrison-Knudsen for
the Helman River Dam in Afghanistan
1957 Peterson acquires Bay Area Caterpillar marine engine franchise formerly handled by
TASCO, aka Thomas A. Short Co. (Oakland)
1958 Peterson Tractor & Equipment Company changes name to Peterson Tractor Co.
1958 Peterson begins territory expansion with acquisition of Sierra Tractor (Shasta, Trinity,
Tehama, Butte counties) and opens Redding & Chico stores - Caterpillar approves
of switch to better serve the contractors building the Trinity River Dam
1958 Peterson sells first Demolition bucket for CAT 955 traxcavator to Bayshore Excavating
1959 Peterson acquires Pringle Tractor territory (Santa Cruz County) - opens Santa Cruz store
nineteen-sixties
1961 Peterson gets largest CAT equipment sale to-date, for any dealer worldwide with the
Mangla Dam project in West Pakistan for Guy F. Atkinson, involving 300 machines
1962 CAT introduces first hydraulic scraper - the CAT 631
1962 Peterson acquires Ditz Bros Tractor territory (Santa Clara County) - opens San Jose store
1963 CAT teams up with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd to become Shin-Caterpillar-Mitsubishi
to become the No. 2 maker of construction and mining equipment in Japan
1964 Peterson goes on-line with first computer - IBM 1440
1964 Peterson introduces its new Quad D9 design which CAT will buy and standardized story
1964 Peterson builds engine & component shop in San Leandro
1965 Triple 657 scrapaer designed by Buster Peterson goes to San Luis Canal project
for Peter Kiewit read story
1968 Oroville Dam completed - Peterson provided on-site product support through duration story
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