Ozebooks

Ozebooks is the production arm of the Australian Industrial Archives. Due to the size and mundane nature of construction equipment it is often omitted from museum collections. To date in Australia no puplic museum exists to preserve any significant earthmoving collection. In order to ensure some of the heritage was preserved the non-profit Australian Industrial Archive was formed to house a large collection of promotional literature and pictures. The archive now houses over 50 thousand items. Ozebooks was set up to convert this printed material into digital ebooks so that the history is available to future generations. Reference disks are then stored at the Historic Construction Equipment Association in Bowling Green Ohio in the United States of America. The Australian Industrial Archives regularly contributes historical articles to magazines

Ebook List

  • Wabco
  • Dresser/International Harvester
  • Clark Michigan
  • Fiat Allis
  • Ford/New Holland
  • Massey Ferguson/Hanomag
  • Terex
  • Euclid
  • Haul Trucks
  • Bomag
  • Dynapac
  • Sakai
  • Bitelli
  • Euro compactor (Hamm AG and Vibromax)
  • Euro zone compactor (European brands)
  • Usa road rollers (Old Anerican roller manufacturers)
  • Hyster compactors
  • Ingersoll Rand
  • Wacker
  • Volvo
  • Orenstein & Koppel
  • CMI includes Autograde
  • Road rollers in Australia
  • Caterpillar in Australia
  • Japanese brands in Australia
  • Road machinery in Australia
  • Earthmoving machines in Australia
  • Road pavement mills
  • Wirtgen
  • Vogelle
  • Blaw Knoxn
  • Road Pavers
  • USA Road machines (Barber Grene/Raygo)

Brand Hub

The" brand hub" is a record of construction machiner brands (past and present) from all countries. People can access this hub to trace company histories.

  • Bitelli (Italy) Rollers, pavers Was purchased by Caterpillar
  • Corinsa (Spain) Compactor manufacturer
  • Europactor (Spain) Compactor manufacurer
  • Pannel Plant (Australia) Compactors, was purchased by Bomag around 1986
  • Tampo (USA) Compactors, was purchased by Ingersoll Rand around 1988

Preservation Ring

The "preservation ring" is a list of worldwide people, organisations and museums that preserve historic information and documents pertaining to industrial and construction equipment.

  • Historic Construction Machinery Association, Bowling Green Ohio (Musem, and Archive Library)

References:

  • Ozebook journal number 2 December 2012
  • Ozebooks Facebook page
  • National Construction Equipment Museum