However, since the 50th anniversary and 750,000th loader celebration in 2008, the pace is even more impressive: one loader built every 12. Over the course of six decades, from the first three-wheeled loader to today, there has been - on average - one Bobcat loader built every thirty minutes, every day, every week, every year. Then in 2014 it hits the 1,000,000 loader milestone.
The growth was skyrocketing, and by 2008 the company celebrated number 750,000. In two more decades (2001), it hits the 500,000-loader mark. And up was 98 to whenever the next serial number break was. If you could tell what year the bobcat was by the VIN number. By 1969 the company builds its 10,000th loader.Īnother decade later (1980) the company reaches its 100,000th loader milestone. SERIAL NUMBER BOBCAT MINI EXCAVATOR Serial Number Location for Bobcat (Melroe) Mini-Excavator Models: 320, 325, 334, 418, E35, 322, 328, 337, 425, E42. Another 400 M200 Melroe loaders were built in 1959-60.Īnd of the world’s first skid-steer loader, the M400, there were 200 built from 1960 to 1962.ġ962 marks the introduction of the M440 - the first Bobcat-branded loader, white with red trim - and two years later celebrates its 1000th loader. In 1958-59, some 18 M60 Melroe loaders were built. For those interested in statistics, the Keller brothers built seven loaders in 1957-58.
