Le Tourneau: Loader excellence

Despite several upheavals during its 80-year history, LeTourneau has carved out a niche as the leading supplier of large wheel loaders for mining

09 September 2009
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Robert Gilmour (RG) LeTourneau was born in 1888 in Richford, Vermont. During his childhood, he moved to Portland, Oregon, where he became an apprentice ironmonger at the East Portland Iron Works.

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