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Euclid dumptrucks and scrapers were very common here in NZ for many years on construction and roading sites, usually fitted with 2-stoke GM/Detroit or Cummins engines. Terex and Hitachi dumptrucks both originated from Euclid, and in many cases were (and still are, in the case of Hitachi) Euclid designs.

Euclid have a fairly complicated history, but briefly........the company began in the early 1900s in the USA as the Euclid Crane and Construction Co, and in 1934 made their first off-road dumptruck. This was possibly the first-off road dumptruck in the world which was designed as such from the outset, others, such as Mack, were converted from on-road trucks.

In 1953 the company was bought by General Motors, who were forced to on-sell it in 1968 to the White Motor Corporation under American anti-trust legislation, as GM were thought to be becoming too dominant in the earthmoving field. White sold it in 1977 to Daimler-Benz, who sold it in 1984 to Clark Michigan Equipment. CME formed a joint venture company with Volvo, who in turn formed a joint venture company with Hitachi in 2000 specifically to manufacture Euclid machinery. In 2004 Hitachi bought 100% of the company, and by the end of that year most of the dumptrucks were rebranded as Hitachi, although some of the castings still had the Euclid name on them.