Perhaps you've noticed in the last five years or so that an increasing number of prominent brand names have been showing up on small wheel loaders. Some might say that these "compact" loaders are relatively new to the North American market, the result of marketers noting the success of these machines on congested European jobsites and bringing the concept here. But, just to set the record straight, small wheel loaders aren't a new phenomenon on this side of the Atlantic. The once-mighty International Harvester, for example, was building small wheel loaders for worldwide consumption in the mid-1960s, and brand names such as Waldon, Swinger, Power Trac and TCM have endured successfully in the U.S. market.
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