Talk:Hyster Company

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You would say "loggers" rather than "logging workers". Timber that leaves the woods is still timeber. It is turned into lumber at a mill, although you could call timber "lumber" I suppose whether it were standing or down.

[edit] Who really invented the forklift?

My mother insists that her father's father, Alexander Samuel Rampell, an illegal immigrant from Russia by way of Canada, was the inventor! The story goes that he didn't claim credit for this or other inventions for fear of being deported.

Rampell worked at Hyster in the early days and is said to have known Theodore Roosevelt when he was the New York City Police Commissioner, stage-managed for Harry Houdini and developed refrigerated trucks that enabled vegetables to be transported to New York City from New Jersey farms. Is any of this correct or is it all fictional family legend about a man who seemed larger-than-life to his grandchildren? I welcome responses from knowledgeable people.LynnMa 04:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)