Can you imagine how manuals and handbooks looked like in the 1950’s? In times without YouTube-tutorials or other webinars? If not, then don’t miss out on this real treasure we found for you: To guide the workers through the handling of different construction machines, Caterpillar Inc. designed an operator’s handbook in 1950 that looks like a comic! What appears to be a story about Indiana Jones going on adventures turns out to be a professional manual. And we have one copy of it in excellent shape! In this blog post, we’ve prepared some pages for you to grasp the true caterpillar nostalgia!

^{Operator’s Handbook, 1950 © Caterpillar Inc.}

Want to get the full Caterpillar nostalgia? You can download the handbook as a PDF here. Have fun reading!

Further information:

1994: Zeppelin and Caterpillar celebrate 40 years of successful partnership: a movie

1954-2020: Advertising nostalgia!

1930-2020: Zeppelin & Caterpillar – Then and Now

1925: American Pioneering Spirit – how Caterpillar started out

1904: How the caterpillar got its name