Poclain

[1] Poclain produced excavators, and was a leader on the French and world market thanks to a revolutionary hydraulic motor.

Poclain makes radial piston hydraulic motors, which are mostly used in industrial and off highway vehicles.

This machine featured a full 360 deg rotating excavator on a three-wheeled tricycle undercarriage.

Company president Pierre Bataille led an early diversification with a move into mobile cranes with the creation of PPM in 1965, and later into hydraulic components.

Diversification also led to international marketing agreements; with Poclain machines were being manufactured in Argentina, Czechoslovakia, India, Japan, and Korea.