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Artillery tractors were different from "General Service" (GS) vehicles by having a compartment for the gun detachment immediately behind the cab and separated from the cargo space containing ammunition and gun stores. German forces used half-tracks as artillery tractors, such as the Sd.Kfz. 7. Half-tracked tractors were not commonly used in ...
The Vickers Light Dragon was a fully-tracked British field artillery tractor made by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd from 1929 to 1935. Designed to tow small-calibre field guns, it complemented Vickers' Medium Dragon tractor, which pulled medium to heavy artillery. There were three main versions, Light Dragon Marks I-III.
The Morris Commercial C8 FAT (Field Artillery Tractor), commonly known as a (Beetle-back) Quad, is an artillery tractor used by the British and Commonwealth (including Canadian forces), during the Second World War. [1] [2] It was used to tow field artillery pieces, such as the 25-pounder gun-howitzer, and anti-tank guns, such as the 17-pounder.
18 pounder (84 mm) field gun and its limber being towed by six horses, 1918. Although there had been previous efforts to motorise heavy artillery transport during the First World War, such as the Holt tractor, the Gun Carrier Mark I and the Foster-Daimler Artillery Tractor to tow (in five loads) the BL 15-inch howitzer, the vast majority of British field artillery was still horse-drawn.
He was an advocate of army mechanisation and now sought a tug or artillery tractor for the new heavy siege artillery. One of Porsche's first projects was the M 06, intended as this artillery tug. It used Paul Daimler's four-wheel drive system from the armoured car chassis, lengthened to a wheelbase of 3,200 millimetres (130 in).
The R.6.T began as an artillery tractor developed by the British Four Wheel Drive Lorry Company (FWD England) of Slough.. FWD began in 1921 as a British subsidiary of the US Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, refurbishing and reselling war-surplus FWD Model B trucks, nearly three thousand of which had been purchased by the British Army during the First World War.
The Foster-Daimler tractor, often called the Daimler-Foster tractor, was a heavy tractor built by William Foster & Co. in the early 20th century. It was used by the armed forces of the United Kingdom as a heavy artillery tractor during the First World War, it also formed the basis of the experimental Tritton trenching machine and its power unit was used in early British tanks.
20- and 30-ton (Pioneer TRMU30/TRCU30) tractor/trailer combinations were delivered. In both cases, the trailer was more-or-less fixed to the tractor, not demountable like modern semi-trailer trucks. Hinged ramps were used to get the tank onto the trailer; if the tank was immobilised, it could be pulled onto the trailer with the tractor unit's ...