Bulldozer - Oliver

Bulldozer or Fire Engine - it is old ! from malacca2u on Vimeo.

This small machinery is a bulldozer that was used before the 2nd. World War to clear lands for rubber plantation in the interior of Malacca. Smaller bulldozers such as this was used to make pathways in the secondary jungles so that the workers could move about to make clearances. Chain-links track controlled its movements and it uses fifty percent petrol and fifty percent kerosene to generate power for its functions.

It was manufactured in Cleaveland, U.S,A. with a length of 9 feet 6 inches, a height of 4 feet and weighs a ton.

Not until the end of the 19th. century, when rubber was planted commercially that revived Malacca's fortunes by Tan Chay Yan in 1895. Ideal environment, road access, sufficient labour, land availability, and the advent of motor car, aided the rapid expansion of the rubber industry in Malacca making the planters to deliver rubber to New York cheaper than Amazon produced rubber.

Tan Chay Yan (CLICK TO KNOW MORE)