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Wooldridge Construction Co Inc company history timeline

1909

1).8 The building contract was let to John Wooldridge and George William Simpson of Frenchay Road, Oxford, in July 1909.”

1927

“Trustee Charles D Seligman, handed the new building over from developers Wooldridge and Simpson to the University of Oxford, at an opening ceremony attended by the Vice Chancellor on Friday 11 March 1927.

1931

Around 1931, Wooldridge was contracted by Continental Roll & Steel Foundry Company to build scrapers at its Los Angeles plant.

In 1931, he started a school for bulldozer operators under the direction of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which was either constructing or funding construction of public works projects all over the country.

1934

Wooldridge received his first patent for a towed scraper in 1934, and was soon offering them in several sizes.

1935

In 1935, two of the Wooldridge employees responsible for building scrapers under this contract were hired by Bucyrus-Erie to design its new line of scrapers and dozer blades.

1938

In 1938, Wooldridge partnered with Harold Gusman to form the Wooldridge Manufacturing Company, and opened a new factory in Sunnyvale, Calif.

1945

Its first motor scraper, the Terra Cobra Model TCY, was introduced in 1945; “TC” stood for the Terra Cobra tractor, and “Y” was for the scraper.

1955

Wooldridge had entered into a manufacturing agreement with Mississippi Road Services (MRS) in 1955 to provide OS-series pull scrapers, including the OS-300, for its wheel tractors.

In 1955, Wooldridge became a division of the Continental Copper and Steel Industries, Inc., and Harold Gusman became a vice president of Continental.

1958

Curtiss-Wright Corporation (CW) of South Bend, Ind., purchased the Wooldridge Division in 1958.

1960

In 1960, the pull scraper line was pared to two models, CWT-8 and CWT-30, and continued slow sales forced further reductions in its entire scraper line.

1975

The two brothers founded the company in 1975 as a small start-up agricultural operation and bailed hay and straw throughout the summer.

2013

At the end of 2013, following the retirement of David Simpson, the company changed ownership.

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