Howard-Cooper Corporation

The Howard-Cooper Corporation “HCC” was founded by W.G. Howard and D.I. Cooper in Portland, Oregon, as a manufacturer of horse-drawn construction equipment in 1912.
== History ==
Howard-Cooper was a multi-line heavy construction distributor serving the construction, logging, and mining industries throughout the Pacific Northwest United States. Product lines included Dresser International-Hough, Galion, Wabco, FMC Link-Belt, FMC Woodlands, Moxy, Timberjack, and Orenstein and Koppel. They started building fire apparatus in the mid-1920s, and made their last trucks in 1956. Howard-Cooper mainly made fire trucks for departments in Washington & Oregon. 
With financial restructuring in 1991, HCC was re-branded as the Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company.
Category:Defunct American fire apparatus manufacturers