Mangla Dam

[Mr Euclid]

Life magazine have teamed up with Google to put up nearly 2 million images online - http://images.google.com/hosted/life.

I was looking through them and found these great images of the equipment at work on the Mangla Dam project in Pakistan in the 60's - http://images.google.com/images?q=mangla&q=source:life. They had around 80 of these Euclid SS-40 scrapers on the job, which were equivilant to the Cat 660 scraper. There was also a similar number of Cat 660 tractors pulling bottom dumps along with a massive number of D8's and D9's.

This is great site with lots of images from other notable projects and equipment from the past.

Cheers
Mr Euclid

 

[cat 385]

Life magazine have teamed up with Google to put up nearly 2 million images online - http://images.google.com/hosted/life.

I was looking through them and found these great images of the equipment at work on the Mangla Dam project in Pakistan in the 60's - http://images.google.com/images?q=mangla&q=source:life. They had around 80 of these Euclid SS-40 scrapers on the job, which were equivilant to the Cat 660 scraper. There was also a similar number of Cat 660 tractors pulling bottom dumps along with a massive number of D8's and D9's.

This is great site with lots of images from other notable projects and equipment from the past.

Cheers
Mr Euclid

nice photos,that is alot of dozer power, wow

 

[Dug Overburden]

In regards to Mangla Dam Project, in the book "Peterson the first sixty years" on page 58 there is an article. Guy F Atkinson was the lead contractor & purchased about 300 pieces of cat equipment form Peterson Tractor. It was the largest single order of construction equipment ever placed with with Caterpillar or anyone else.

All equipment went to straight to New York,then on a boat to Pakistan where it had to be assembled,then Atkinson took it from there and arranged transport from Karachi to Mangla

The order was spread out over 2 years & included sixty-eight D9G's;forty D8H's;twenty five D7E's & thirty 140 motor graders. They also included a fleet of seventy-five Cat 660's with 100 ton Athey bottom dumps & another spread of eighty Euclid SS40's.

This job was between 1961 & 1967 in West Pakistan. Total yardage on the project was Three Hundred Million Cubic yards & the record month was four million cubic yards of earthfill.

1200 mechanics serviced the 1000 pieces of heavy equipment on the job in two shifts six days a week

Life magazine have teamed up with Google to put up nearly 2 million images online - http://images.google.com/hosted/life.

I was looking through them and found these great images of the equipment at work on the Mangla Dam project in Pakistan in the 60's - http://images.google.com/images?q=mangla&q=source:life. They had around 80 of these Euclid SS-40 scrapers on the job, which were equivilant to the Cat 660 scraper. There was also a similar number of Cat 660 tractors pulling bottom dumps along with a massive number of D8's and D9's.

This is great site with lots of images from other notable projects and equipment from the past.

Cheers
Mr Euclid

 

[Gavin84w]

I wonder where the graveyard for all this equipment is in Pakistan, must be a heap of scrapers laying around there

 

[Gavin84w]

I was looking through them and found these great images of the equipment at work on the Mangla Dam project in Pakistan in the 60's - http://images.google.com/images?q=ma...=source:life. They had around 80 of these Euclid SS-40 scrapers on the job, which were equivilant to the Cat 660 scraper. There was also a similar number of Cat 660 tractors pulling bottom dumps along with a massive number of D8's and D9's.

What specifically did you type in to drill down and find these images, was it a couple of searches to get there?

 

[Mr Euclid]

No, just 'Mangla Dam'.

There are also a few pictures of the Trinity Dam project that Guy F Atkinson built in the 60's in California and a few more of MK's causeway across the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

 

[malcolm]

mangala dam

htanks for the link

 

[637slayer]

thanx for the pics, pictures of that era of big dirt moving, are my favorite, i dont even know why. ide much prefer sitting in a 11r or 57g.

 

[alan627b]

Thanks Mr Euclid, that archive is fantastic! I've already robbed several 100 pics from it. Thanks!
A couple of other great archives...
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
http://argenteditions.com/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/introduction.cfm

 

[aongheas.macask]

Life magazine have teamed up with Google to put up nearly 2 million images online - http://images.google.com/hosted/life.

I was looking through them and found these great images of the equipment at work on the Mangla Dam project in Pakistan in the 60's - http://images.google.com/images?q=mangla&q=source:life. They had around 80 of these Euclid SS-40 scrapers on the job, which were equivilant to the Cat 660 scraper. There was also a similar number of Cat 660 tractors pulling bottom dumps along with a massive number of D8's and D9's.

This is great site with lots of images from other notable projects and equipment from the past.

Cheers
Mr Euclid

Hi Mr Euc,
You might be interested in a site I found about Terex and Euclid, plenty of stories and pics of scrapers and trucks, type in Blackwood Hodge Memories
All the best--Innes: