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The tractor is stacked high with supplies, and a number of uniformed soldiers are walking alongside. A Holt 60-horsepower, four-cylinder valve-in-head gasoline Caterpillar (s/n 524) in 1912. The tractor was restored in the late 1960s and is the oldest surviving East Peoria-built tractor known to exist. [42]
By 1916, about one thousand of Holt's Caterpillar tractors were used by the British in World War I. Holt vice president Murray M. Baker said that these tractors weighed about 18,000 pounds (8,200 kg) and had 120 horsepower (89 kW). [13] By the end of the war, 10,000 Holt vehicles had been used in the Allied war effort. [14]
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.
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 ...
After the war, LeTourneau returned to Stockton and discovered the Superior Garage business had failed. In order to repay his portion of the debts, he took a job repairing a Holt crawler tractor, and was then employed by the tractor owner to level 40 acres [160,000 m 2] using the tractor and a towed scraper. [5] [independent source needed]
The name Caterpillar came from a soldier during the tests on the Hornsby crawler, "trials began at Aldershot in July 1907. The soldiers immediately christened the 70bhp No.2 machine the 'caterpillar'." [25] Holt adopted that name for his "crawler" tractors. Holt began moving from steam to gasoline-powered designs, and in 1908 brought out the 40 ...
Hornsby paraffin-fuelled, tracked tractor. David Roberts (1859 – 22 April 1928) was the Chief Engineer and managing director of Richard Hornsby & Sons in the early 1900s. His invention, the caterpillar track, was demonstrated to the army in 1907.
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 ...