HOLT (before 1925)The Holt 120 tractor, circa 1914A Holt 75 hauling a replica 8-inch howitzer
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 ground for these machines.[1]
The Holttractors were a range of continuous track haulers built by the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California which were named after company...
first workable crawler ("caterpillar") tractor design, incorporated the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1892. Holt Manufacturing Company was the first company...
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...
first artillery tractors were designed prior to the outbreak of World War I, often based on agricultural machines such as the Holttractor. Such vehicles...
Benjamin Holt of the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California was the first to file a US patent for a workable crawler type tractor in 1907....
artillery tractors in January 1915. On 30 January it sent out its chief designer, Brillié, to investigate tracked tractors from the American Holt Company...
first tank prototype (itself directly taken from the track design of the Holttractor), and was unsprung. The crew compartment was a fixed, polygonal turret...
Hugh Marriott, a mining engineer, who drew his attention to a Holt caterpillar tractor that Marriott had seen in Belgium. Marriott thought that it might...
mount on Holttractor – Experimental chassis designed by J Walter Christie – M1920. 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T9 (based on Cletrac MG-2 tractor). 105 mm...
was based on caterpillar tracks of the type found on the American HoltTractors. Initially unconvinced that tanks were a serious threat, the High Command...
kilometres per hour (7.5 mph). The running gear was based on the American Holttractor, copied from examples loaned by the Austro-Hungarian Army. After initial...
but failed. Benjamin Holt of the Holt Manufacturing Company bought the patents related to the "chain track" track-type tractor from Richard Hornsby &...
was sufficient as long as the towing vehicle wasn't very fast, like a Holttractor. But as towing vehicles became faster, the axles needed to be sprung...
machinery that was used in and around Fort Smith. This exhibit includes a Holttractor that was brought north in 1919 to work the portage route between Fort...
tank, 400 each of the Schneider and Saint-Chamond, both based on the HoltTractor. The following year, the French pioneered the use of a full 360° rotation...
January 1915 and tried to build a first armoured vehicle based on the Baby Holttractor but initially the development process was slow until in July they received...
first bulldozers were adapted from Holt farm tractors that were used to plough fields. The versatility of tractors in soft ground for logging and road...
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