In the 1950s and 1960s, Towmotor set out to capture a greater share of the market by introducing new models and acquiring companies with product lines that expanded lift capacity. The gasoline, diesel ...

Note: I’m still recovering from a bad case of Sasquatch fever after last week’s WNC Bigfoot Festival, so please enjoy this column from 2010, a fan favorite, or at least a fan favorite in the forklift ...

When Caterpillar Tractor Co. closed its Mentor lift-truck plant in 1984, many of its 1,700 employees were devastated. Caterpillar had merged with the Cleveland-based Towmotor Corp. 20 years before, ...

John Miklitsch remembers the heyday of the W.S. Tyler plant in Mentor. “I started out doing soldering work in the sieve room. Later, I learned how to weld,” said Miklitsch, who landed a job with Tyler ...