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Benjamin Leroy Holt (January 1, 1849 – December 5, 1920) was an American businessman and inventor who patented and manufactured the first practical crawler-type tread tractor. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The continuous-type track is used for heavy agricultural and engineering vehicles to spread the weight over a large area to prevent the vehicle from sinking ...
The Holt Manufacturing Company began with the 1883 founding of Stockton Wheel Service in Stockton, California, United States. [3] [4] [5] Benjamin Holt, later credited with patenting the first workable crawler ("caterpillar") tractor design, incorporated the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1892. [6]
This prototype tractor, built by Benjamin Holt, was the first The earliest predecessor of today's Caterpillar tractors rumbled across the fields of Roberts Island near Stockton, Calif., on Nov. 24 ...
In the mid-1920s, Holt encountered financial trouble. Best's financial backers approached Holt executives to discuss a merger. On April 15, 1925, C. L. Best Tractor Company and Holt Manufacturing Company merged to form Caterpillar Tractor Company (later Caterpillar Inc.). [2] Best remained chairman of the board of Caterpillar until his death in ...
It was even a surreal experience for Triway coach (and Triway Middle School principal) Ben Holt, a former outsider who's become adopted into the Triway community, seeing his son Brayden (17 points ...
Holt is the great-grandson of Benjamin Holt, who developed the first practical track-type tractor in 1904. His family's history in San Antonio, Texas began in 1933, when his great uncle, William K. Holt, moved to San Antonio to start a Caterpillar dealership. As he had no heirs, Bill invited B.D. Holt (Peter's father) to get involved in the ...
News anchor Lester Holt’s wife, Carol Hagen, has been his rock for more than four decades.. Holt and Hagen met at the age of 21 when she was a flight attendant and he was a radio reporter. Two ...
Benjamin Holt attempted to fix the problem by increasing the size and width of the wheels up to 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall and 6 feet (1.8 m) wide, producing a tractor 46 feet (14 m) wide, but this also made the tractors increasingly complex, expensive, and difficult to maintain.