Cat 951 (But What Model?)

Nick, if it has a clutch lever I believe it is a 951A 63k series fitted with a Westlode cab. Cheers Al

Hey Iceman it looks to me a like a 951 not more. The 951A had the Cat-Towmotor logo. Then I wonder what the blue crane in the back is?
Anders.

It is a 951A and as there were only two models made it is either an 89A or a 63K and I would guess an 89A going by the size of the pre cleaner, it would be easier to tell if the side guard was off the engine,the cab was known in the trade as a Leverton cab made by their engineering division Westlode Eng.they were a very willing machine but hard on final drives and steering clutches,was a lot of them around London used in the demolition business back in the sixties till Komatsu knocked them from their perch,the one in the picture looks to be in nice condition. the serial number on the back will be hidden behind the counter weight as its got a 4 in 1 bucket,there should be another in the lower dash area.
AJ

Nick,

The number plate appears to show an F reg, if you work out the year of registration it would confirm the serial number of this 951?

According to my info the 89A was produced in Glasgow between 1964 and 1967:
1964 - 89A1 to 154
1965 - 89A155 to 616
1966 - 89A617 to 1100
1967 - 89A1101 to 1599
1968 - 89A1600 to discontinued

The 63K was built between 1968 and 1970:
1968 - 63K250 to 472
1969 - 63K473 to 865? (i think this is incorrect see comments)
1970 - 63K866? to 987 (discontinued)

My 63K is 836, which using the above data, would date it as late 1969. However, it has a Bowmaker plate fitted with a delivery date of 11 March 1970? I have also obtained a second hand 63K parts book with 63K868 hand written on the front cover with a 11 May 1970 delivery date, so 1969 ending in 63K865 appears to be doubtfull.

David

Hello Iceman,

You ask if anyone here can identify which Series "951" Traxcavator is, well upon checking up I note that there was, would you beleive at least 11 different Series built as follows,

63K, 89A, 92A, 15F, 32F, 69H, 72J, 78J, 79H, 86J, and 19H.

As you can see from that, it would be almost impossible to identify from the photo's.

Sincere regards

Alan T. Lewis
Christchurch
NEW ZEALAND

Cat 60 , the thing to look for is the exhaust, on the one shovel the exhaust muffler is above the bonnet on the later shovel it was below the bonnet I think????, the only 951's banging around sites in the U.K. were 89a's & 63k's, to find a USA built shovel was a rare thing on the early Track loaders, I did work on a few powershift USA built shovels, they always seemed to have leather seat cushons ???
tctractors

Martyn at the dealer over the years back then we sold a few front end loaders with the side dump buckets on them but can,t remember exactly what they ordered them for or just what job they used them on now but I guess they were needed for their particular job.I also believe we also installed a few on some rubber tired front loaders too.

Alan T. out of the eleven models you have listed only two are manual drive and as I stated they are 951A's, 89A and 63K,then there is 951 951B and C which is an entirely different machine,different loader configuration,powershift and pedal steer,most of the serial number prefixs for the 951,B and C designates the country of build.
Anders933, the only machines I have seen with a Towmotor logo on them were fork lift trucks,the blue crane in the picture looks like a NCK painted a company colour original would be orange.
AJ