The Tangled Web of Euclid and Truck History
General Motors, which had been exploring entry into the heavy construction equipment market, acquired Euclid on September 30, 1953, and made it a division of GM on January 1, 1954. In the mid-1950s, GM built a new factory for Euclid at Hudson, Ohio; in 1954, the Euclid product line was expanded to include crawler tractors and, in 1959, …
