Komatsu’s machinery has a reputation for toughing it out.
One of the Japanese machinery company’s earliest dozers – the Komatsu-branded T40 – made its unconventional journey to Australian shores via several decades at the bottom of the ocean, where it was lost following the Second World War.
After being recovered by an Australian scrap metal company, the dozer was purchased by two Sydney farmers and resurrected with a simple oil change and some new electrical components.
The machine was acquired by Komatsu in 1979 and returned to Japan, where it was fully restored to its original specifications. It now remains proudly on display at
