DJB
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DJB Engineering Ltd was founded in 1973 in Peterlee, County Durham in England by David John Brown. The company was renamed as Artix Ltd in 1980 ? after Cat bought the rights to the Designs.
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[edit] History
The Firm built its first Articulated Dump Truck (ADT) a model D25B in 1974, based on a Caterpillar drive train. The firm agreed a marketing deal with "Caterpillar" dealers world wide to facilitate support, as the major components were all "Caterpillar".
Th range was expanded and sale grew steadily, with Caterpillar buying the rights to the design & branding them as CAT, and eventually buying the company out in 1986.
[edit] Model range
- D25B - 25 ton, 1974
- D250 - 25 ton
- D300 - 30 ton
- D350D
- D400 - 40 ton
- D550 + B - 55 ton, 1986 ( dropped after 2 years as sales too slow)
- Cat D740 + Cat D740E E= Ejector in place of tipping body
Th range was updated and currently is at suffix
[edit] David J Brown
The firm was founded by David J Brown, an engineer with a history of involvement in innovative design. He had worked for Chaseside, Bray, and went on to Start DJB engineering which was renamed as Artix Ltd. After selling the firm to caterpillar in 1986 he went on to take over Bedford truck from general motors and renamed the firm as AWD (GM retained the Bedford brand name), as well as patenting the Multidrive concept and trying to market it to the military and quarry and mine users as a heavy duty semi on-off highway vehicle.
[edit] See also
- List of Construction Plant Manufacturers
- Bell
- Caterpillar Inc.
- DDT Engineering
- MT Engineering
- Moxy
- Terex
- Volvo Construction
[edit] References
- Classic Plant & Machinery Magazine, Vol4 no.1, September 2005.
- Ford Tractor Conversions, by Stuart Gibbard.
- Caterpillar Chronicles by Eric C. Orlemman.
