After two years in the concrete industry, Ed Wagner of Portland, Oregon, realized the need for a more efficient way to handle the heavy building material. The contractor designed the Mixermobile, a truck-mounted concrete mixing and pouring system that could be transported on highways up to 50 miles per hour. The Mixermobile consisted of a cement-mixing drum mounted on a truck with a 35-foot pivot tower and adjustable chute to deliver the concrete ready-mix to the desired heig

Neil B. McGinnis was not your typical mid-century construction and farm equipment dealer in Phoenix. In 1946, he forever changed how equipment companies presented themselves. His firm, the Neil B. McGinnis Equipment Company, had a state-of-the-art building constructed. The sophisticated design was called “one of the most pretentious machinery sales and repair buildings ever erected,” by The Arizona Republic. The building’s incorporation of construction equipment in a sophisti