NEWS Ӏ JANUARY 2022
FRoM THE vAuLTS
November 2022 will mark 50 years of Cranes Today magazine. To celebrate this 'golden anniversary' we are raiding the vaults to bring you some of our favourite archive issues from across the decades. We start this series with issue three, January 1973.
Cranes Today started life in November 1972. It was formed by founder publisher Ian MacLaren in conjunction with its first editor Chris Wilson, under the name MW Publishers. The duo had previously worked together on Cranes magazine under the ownership of Morgan Grampian.
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When Grampian wanted to close Cranes (or, worse, merge it with sister magazine Muck Shifter) outrage from the crane industry convinced MacLaren and Wilson there was a continued need for a magazine catering just for them. And so Cranes Today was born.
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The first issue contained a thank-you to the magazine's supporters who had inspired them and stood by them while they put the new magazine together.
And that thank you continues today. Without your support we simply wouldn't be celebrating our approaching 50th. To mark this 'golden anniversary' we've dug deep into our archives to find some classic issues; nostalgia from across the decades which reveals that although a lot has changed, some fundamentals, reassuringly, remain the same.
On the cover 49 years ago this month (top right) was a PPM 12.02 fully- hydraulic crawler excavator/crane from manufacturer Potain Poclain Manutention (PPM) – a division of hydraulic excavator manufacturer Poclain and now a Terex legacy brand.
The 12 tonne capacity model was available with dragline buckets of up to 700 tonnes capacity. PPM went on to sell over 400 hydraulic crawler excavator/cranes.
To celebrate our golden anniversary we are making digital copies of certain archive issues available. If you are interested in obtaining one, please contact editor Christian Shelton.
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