Jim,

With all due respect you want to compare yourself to Clark?

Clark has fallen, fallen and even continues to fall!!!

Would you like a detailed history of what Clark Equipment Company has done to our business?

Let us start at the end of WWII. the TCM deal?

Then the TCM Michigan Loader deal?

Oh and not to forget the Clark Melroe TCM deal?

Oh how about that fateful day, in Battle Creek Michigan, when they let all of those Japaneese people........HMMM my memory is fading, been a while, long ago, ooooh oooh oooh I remember they let all of those Japaneese forklift people come in an Photograph every inch of the Clark Facility in BC Michigan.

Then shortly after that the US recieved the "You asked it you got Toyota forklift" with Datsun AKA Nissan to follow.

Jim I was there that day in BC!!!!!, that was the day the music died.

Do not forget the ECA, GPX, GCX.

Make sure to read the 987 service bulletins for each one of these models, before you trouble shoot any of these.

If you do not have them do not bother to contact Clark the Hat because they lost these documents in a flood in wherever they were stored and that was not BC, it does not flood there.

Clark was once THE UNDISPUTED KING, once, but that was long ago and far away, remember 65% market share, 356 models?

I am not even going to go into the Brazil nightmare, or the other disasters CLARK made., Lexinton, Bowling Green, Mitsubishi, Bruse ETC,.

Oh here is another one do not forget the Drexall disaster of the late 80's, the bankruptcies of the 90's and 2K.

The less than 60% fill rate to their dealers and no parts available due to credit hold from their vendors and bankrupticie leins of the late 90's and early 2K?

I would never compare myself to the Korean Hat Manufacture of the Clark of today.

One more, I forgot, the Samsung deal as well, oh yea right Clark the forklift, I strongly disagree!!! I am thinking Clark the Hat?

The Clark name and logo has only one thing left and that is name recognization, and the Korean hat guy will loose that for them as well.

No not ever at all would I even mention my name along with the Clark of today.

I owe CLARK Equipment Company Battle Creek Michigan my career, but have no alliegance to the Clark of today.

OK Jim :

Tell the truth!

Heli, is TCM China!

TCM did in fact support modernizing forklift truck manufacturing facilities in China including Anhui Heli through its holding company, Anhui Forklift (group) Corp. This was done under the technology transfer agreement according to Chinese government requests from 1985 to 1993. Then, TCM and Anhui Forklift (group) Corp. founded two joint venture companies, one for manufacturing and distributing TCM brand forklift trucks for sales in China under a TCM brand name, another for producing a basic forklift truck component ñ counter weights. A new factory has grown out of this joint venture, and it may possibly produce forklift trucks in the future for sale in Asian countries neighboring China.

Does the US border CHINA, I need to check my Geography.

Read between the lines.

Anyone can research this, crikies mate!

TCM is playing with the same deck of cards Clark gave them, only 3 decades later.

History does repeat itself, I guess that is because people die, and new Idiots are born, this can be the only reason!

The North American Coal guy is probably looking for another OEM to add, Clark may be next maybe TCM ANULI HELI.


Then the new NACCO Green truck will have a built in toaster!

My rant is finished.

Regards