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The British polymath Sir George Cayley patented a continuous track, which he called a "universal railway" in 1825. [2] Polish mathematician and inventor Józef Maria Hoene-WroĊski designed caterpillar vehicles in the 1830s to compete with the railways. [3]
Bramah Joseph Diplock (27 April 1857 – 9 August 1918) [1] was an English inventor who invented the pedrail wheel in 1899 [2] [3] and the pedrail chaintrack, a type of caterpillar track, in 1907. [4] Diplock was born in Chelsea, London to Thomas Bramah Diplock, a coroner, and Eleanor Diplock.
It includes the second oldest combine harvester on display in the United States (a 1904 Haines-Houser harvester) drawn by a circa-1918 Holt '75' Caterpillar track-type tractor. Both pieces are fully restored. Benjamin Holt's wife Anna Brown Holt was a Regent of the University of the Pacific in Stockton for twenty five years.
It was fitted with a chain track and was trialled by the Army in November 1907 in Aldershot. The 4-ton vehicle achieved speeds of 15 mph (24 km/h) over difficult terrain. Hornsbys, in a rare moment of marketing savoir-faire , commissioned a film of this vehicle to promote the virtues of the caterpillar track, which was to be shown at provincial ...
The Caterpillar company consolidated its product lines, offering only five track-type tractors: the 2 Ton, 5 Ton, and 10 Ton from the Holt Manufacturing Company's old product line and the Caterpillar 30 and Caterpillar 60 from the C. L. Best Tractor Co.'s former product line. The 10 Ton and 5 Ton models were discontinued in 1926.
It later returned to the factory for a caterpillar track fitting. The first commercially successful light-weight petrol-powered general purpose tractor was built by Dan Albone, a British inventor in 1901. [20] [21] He filed for a patent on 15 February 1902 for his tractor design and then formed Ivel Agricultural Motors Limited.
He anticipated the caterpillar track with an invention that he played around with for forty years but that he never successfully developed. [3] He described it as a "cart that carries its own road". He was married four times, including to Honora Sneyd and to Frances Beaufort , older sister of Francis Beaufort of the Royal Navy.
The Holt tractors were a range of continuous track haulers built by the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California which were named after company founder Benjamin Holt. Between 1908 and 1913, twenty-seven of the first 100 Holt caterpillar track-type tractors were used on the Los Angeles Aqueduct project, which provided a good proving ...