Oshkosh Truck
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Oshkosh Truck NYSE: OSK, is a manufacturer of specialty trucks and truck bodies for defense, industrial and fire emergency applications. It is based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and employs about 7,000 people worldwide in five countries.
The company was founded in 1917 as the Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company and was created to build a severe-duty four-wheel-drive truck. The first prototype was built, and upon its strengths as a vehicle, the company began to take off. This first four-wheel-drive truck is known today as Old Betsy. It is still owned by the Oshkosh Truck Corporation and housed in one of its assembly plants in Oshkosh. Old Betsy still runs, as well, and is used frequently in demonstrations and parades.
On October 16, 2006, Oshkosh announced an agreement to purchase JLG Industries for $3 billion in an attempt to diversify their business and decrease their dependence on defense spending. [1]
The company took on its current name in 1918, when it moved to Oshkosh. It began building defense trucks since World War II. An Oshkosh is the current prime mover for the British Army Heavy Transporter, capable of drawing 118 tonnes all up.
[edit] Products
Its brands include:
Commercial
- Oshkosh Truck
- Pierce (fire trucks, purchased in 1996)
- Medtec (ambulances)
- McNeilus (concrete mixers and refuse trucks)
- Geesink (European trash-hauling)
- Norba (European trash-hauling)
- Kiggen (European trash-hauling)
- Jerr-Dan (towing)
- CON-E-CO (Concrete Equipment Company)
- London Machinery (Concrete Mixers)
- S Series concrete mixers
- Glider kits
- S Series Revolution mixers
- Highlander truck based mixers
- Iowa Mold Tooling Co. (field service vehicles and truck-mounted cranes)
Military
- Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck - HEMTT and HEMTT-A3 (hybrid truck).
- Heavy Equipment Transporter
- Homeland Security command vehicle
- Bushmaster Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) vehicle
- Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR)
- Palletized Load System
Airport Fire/Snow Removal
- BAI (Brescia Antincendi International S.r.l.) (Italian fire trucks)
- Tactical Fire Fighting Truck
- Wheeled Tanker
- Bushmaster - assured mobility vehicle
- Striker airport fire truck (models 1550, 3000, 4500)
- H-series snow blower
- MPT Series snow plow - truck
- P Series Snow plow
