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H.O. Penn Machinery company history timeline

1930

The business had grown so rapidly, however, that the company was moved to the Port Morris Terminal at 140th Street and the East River in the Bronx on May 30, 1930.

1931

He had joined H.O. Penn in 1931 and, through his sales efforts, was instrumental in expanding the company’s business on Long Island.

1933

In 1933 the company was awarded the Caterpillar Tractor Co. territory for New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Putnam, Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, and Dutchess counties in the State of New York.

1937

H.O. Penn and Caterpillar were major factors in the construction of new highways and the reclamation of lands throughout the area. For example, in 1937, New York City revamped its entire landfill operation with the purchase of ten Caterpillar crawler tractors, and eighteen crawler type refuse wagons.

1944

Ham Penn turned the Michigan dealership over to Jack Frost on April 1, 1944.

Also in 1944, in return for giving up the Michigan territory, H.O. Penn became the Caterpillar dealer for the state of Connecticut.

1946

In 1946 Ham Penn, who was serving as President of the Associated Equipment Distributors, died suddenly of a heart attack.

1948

In 1948, Caterpillar offered the Cleveland’s a new territory in central Pennsylvania that formerly belonged to Beckwith Machinery.

1968

Bob Sr.’s younger son, C.E. Thomas Cleveland, joined the firm in 1968.

The Newington, Connecticut facility was opened in 1968.

The Poughkeepsie, New York operation, originally established with the purchase of Poughkeepsie Farm Supply Co., was moved from Brickyard Hill on Route 44 to its current location in 1968.

1976

The Bronx, New York store was relocated to its current location at the foot of the Whitestone Bridge in 1976.

1982

The Holtsville, New York store was completed in 1982, replacing the Westbury location.

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