The Hyster Spacesaver S7.0FT is a 7-tonne diesel lift truck, and the video below shows a used example. Spacesaver is the model name, the S7.0FT the designation, and the truck belongs to the S-prefix part of the Hyster range. No Wikipedia article covers it, so this page follows the American company that built it.
Hyster Spacesaver at a glance
| Maker | Hyster Company, Portland, Oregon |
|---|---|
| Model | Hyster Spacesaver S7.0FT |
| Type | lift truck, materials handling |
| Capacity | 7 tonnes, as named in the video |
| Fuel | diesel |
| Example in the video | used truck |
| Family | S series, S-prefix lift trucks |
| Company founded | 1929, as the Willamette-Ersted Company |
| Owner from 1989 | NACCO Industries |
| Owner from 2012 | Hyster-Yale Materials Handling |
| Name origin | from the loggers’ call ‘hoist ’er’ |
No Wikipedia article covers the Hyster Spacesaver: the facts here come from the English Wikipedia article on Hyster Company, a single source, together with the video title.
History of the Hyster Spacesaver
S7.0FT: the truck in the video
The video below describes a used 7-tonne Hyster forklift, model S7.0FT, under the Spacesaver name and with a diesel engine. Those are the only details of the truck recorded here: the clip is a dealer’s film of a second-hand machine, not a specification sheet.
1929: the logging name
Hyster was founded in 1929 as the Willamette-Ersted Company in Portland, Oregon. The name is said to derive from the Pacific Northwest logging trade of the late nineteenth century; when a load of lumber was ready to be transported a logger would yell ‘hoist ’er’, and according to the Hyster Company web page the phrase became synonymous with Hyster trucks. From there the company specialised in forklifts and other materials-handling equipment.
Plants, owners and the 2012 spin-off
The home office stayed in Portland while manufacturing spread to Berea, Danville, Peoria and Kewanee in Illinois, the Netherlands, China, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Craigavon in Northern Ireland and South Africa, with a specialist engineering department in Irvine, Scotland. NACCO Industries bought Hyster in 1989 and made it part of NACCO Materials Handling Group; in 2012 the materials-handling business was spun off as Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc., which continues to market products under the Hyster brand.
Design and features
- 7 tonnes: the capacity named in the video title.
- Diesel engine: the truck in the clip is a diesel machine.
- Spacesaver name: the model name carried by the S7.0FT.
- Used example: the film shows a second-hand truck offered by a dealer.
- Global support: distribution arranged around five world regions.
Hyster Spacesaver versions
- Hyster Spacesaver S7.0FT: the truck covered on this page.
- Used example: the second-hand machine in the video below.
- Smaller S-prefix trucks: the S1.0 to S1.6 models of the S series.
- Metric trucks: the Hyster 2.50 shows the metric side of the range.
The smaller S-prefix trucks are covered by the Hyster S series page, and the Hyster 2.50 is the other metric-numbered truck in the collection. All Hyster trucks are in the Hyster collection.
Video: tito.com // used 7 ton Hyster forklift S7.0FT Spacesaver diesel
Video on YouTube.
Sources
- Hyster Company, English Wikipedia: company history, ownership, plants, name origin
