Oshkosh
The Oshkosh Motor Truck Manufacturing Company was formed,
initially as the Wisconsin Duplex Auto Co. of Clintonville,
by Besserdich and Mosling in 1913.
It was renamed Oshkosh when it moved
to the town of that name
- 1968 Oshkosh 6x4, GCM 45,000kg,
Caterpillar 1674, 270hp motor, at the
Historic Commercial Vehicles Show.
1968
- M1070 Heavy Equipment Transporters.
M1070- These monsters have 500hp diesels, 5 speed automatic gearboxes, two speed transfer cases, and eight wheel drive. They are used to haul Abrams tanks around.
2009 August 17: Oshkosh Defense
(and not S&S/BAE)
was selected to
produce 2,568 FMTV
trucks and trailers for us$280.9million.
2010 May 10: Oshkosh announced an order
of over us$410million to supply
2,634 Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
(FMTV)
trucks and trailers to the U.S. Army in 2011,
with more orders in July.
2010, October 6:
"Oshkosh Defense [was] awarded its
first production order for the
2015, August 25: The US military awarded $6.7 billion contract to Oshkosh for an initial production run of "approximately 17,000" Joint Light Tactical Vehicles JLTVs from FY 2016.