When I boarded my flight to Auckland last week I sat down beside a middle aged guy dressed in what was very obviously CAT branded clothing, needless to say, I struck up a conversation with him and It turns out that he was the general manager of Sales for TerraCAT NZ, the new distributor for CAT product here in NZ (part of the Sime Darby group) that brought out Gough's approximately 18 months ago. I talked to him about and showed him pics of the low hour D2 5U I had just brought and it turns out that he started as a workshop serviceman and then field serviceman for Goughs back in the early 2000's and had steadily risen through the ranks to the position he is now. Since our chat he sent me some very interesting archive pics which I thought I would share here:
  

 

Great photos!!! Thanks for sharing them.

Those are great pictures, I always like to see them how they are supposed to look before time and abuse take its toll

Great batch of pictures.....with remarkable clarity to...thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing, no doubt there were thousands of photo's taken over the years, sadly most probably ended up in the dumpster.

Lot of detail in those photos, picture quality is first class thanks for sharing

Here is another interesting one he sent me just this morning:
  

Interesting display with the prominence of Caterpillar and the Cat surrounded by the steel tracks. John Deere definitely in the background on this display.