Hydrostatics and the Melroe Bobcat (1973)
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Nelson, Scott
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content: Bobcat Company
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content: Bobcat Company Records
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content: Bobcat Company Records / Series 10: Audiovisual Materials / 10.2: Promotional
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: (English version)

16 mm composite optical track film, 650 feet, 19 minutes

This Bill Snyder film describes the hydrostatic system utilized in the Bobcat. The different parts and machinery as well as the processes that allow the system to work are described in detail. The benefits of the hydrostatic system are also explained. Images of the Bobcat moving dirt, rocks, and debris on construction sites, farms, factories, and mines are included.