Horse Drawn Gravel Wagon

I've seen a couple of those wagons and they were made by the
manufacturers of regular wagons. Horse drawn equipment was on its way out thanks to Cat. I doubt they would have made an item like that in the Midwest plant. Maybe when they were in the combine business, that plant may have made them?

I've seen a couple of those wagons and they were made by the
manufacturers of regular wagons. Horse drawn equipment was on its way out thanks to Cat. I doubt they would have made an item like that in the Midwest plant. Maybe when they were in the combine business, that plant may have made them?

I've seen a couple of those wagons and they were made by the
manufacturers of regular wagons. Horse drawn equipment was on its way out thanks to Cat. I doubt they would have made an item like that in the Midwest plant. Maybe when they were in the combine business, that plant may have made them?

I don’t think you’ll find that Caterpillar every built a dump wagon. But they were more that one company that did, one which was the Watson Products Corporation they build the Watson Bottom Dump Wagon.

If you have a picture, one may narrow it down a little more as to the make.
Kelly

Like AJ said, the Holts were making wagons long before they started making tractors. Holt got into the crawler business after the state of California started selling off it's "swamp and overflow" lands, which were excluded in the Spanish land grants.

At that time there was a large industrial manufacturing base in Stockton that was making everything from Barges with dredges and pumps to horse powered earthmoving equipment. This was at a time when the state was in transition from Mining into AG and logging. Stockton wheel was still a small business when the big manufactures in town were building dredges.

Prior to the realestate bust in the early 1900's there was big money in transforming the land and subdividing the 20,000 acre land grants into smaller parcles sold to people on the Eastcoast and Europe.

Stockton Wheel is still in existence, had them make some wheels for my BeGe scraper last year. They have a large collection of old Cat toys, tractors, graders and the like, made by Tonka and other manufactures. They are on Fremont st. in Stockton and in phone directory. Nice folks.
Frank

Yep Stockton Wheel is on what was banner island, almost next to the new Stockton arena & minor league baseball park. They always have a nice display of their toy cars and classic cars at the Goodguys car show in Plesanton.