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I am from Walnut Grove. A short way from Stockton. worked for Caterpillar in Walnut grove. Visited the Holt factory grounds in 1955. There were a few Holt tractors left on farms in the Bay area but when I took a gentleman interested in getting a couple to restore, they had all been scrapped. What a loss. I don't know if the Cook ranch is still in the Rio Vista Foothills nut they were an operating museum of Caterpillar/Holt equipment. We were constantly hunting parts for the old Cats and the side hill Caterpillar grain harvesters. The owner was the Cook Enterprises that owned so many grain storage and shipping elevators. He would rather repair the old equipment than replace it. The vineyards around Napa also used old 2 ton and Artillery tractors also used in WWI.
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