M. Braud the founder of Manitou was the inventor of the Rough Terrain forklift which he achieved by taking the conventional layout of a farm tractor and adding a mast and forks.
Today the modern descendants of that design in the M/MX range still set the standard for the product and Manitou is the name most associated with rough terrain forklifts worldwide.
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