[AT] "First" diesel crawler w/ Blade

[charlie hill]

Looking through the Nebraska Tractor Test book,  the first Diesel Crawler 
they tested was Test No. 208 in July 1932.  It was a Caterpillar "Diesel" 
(apparently Diesel was the model name). The next one they tested was in July 
1932 and it was a Cat model 65.

It that wasn't the first diesel crawler it was most likely the first 
reliable diesel crawler.  Nebraska tested it's first crawler in 1920 so if 
there had been any out before the Caterpillar they most likely would have 
tested it.

According to Norm Swinfords AC construction equipment book,
Monarch tested an Atlas Diesel in a model 75 in 1927 and it was tested in 
Montana as late as 1930 but never put into production.

Reference for the librarian:
  Nebraska Tractor Tests Since 1920 by C.H. Wendel.

Allis Chalmers Construction Machinery & Industrial Equipment
Norm Swinford,  Crestline Publishers,  ISBN 0-7603-0485-8

Charlie Hill

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From: "JParks" <jkparks at flash.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:08 AM
Subject: [AT] "First" diesel crawler w/ Blade


> Below is a copy/paste of a question I rec'd from a librarian in hopes of
> helping an inquiring patron.  (very helpful library!)  The question 
> involves
> not just the "first" diesel powered crawler tractor, but the qualifier 
> that
> it be a "dozer", so the blade attachment comes into question too.  All I
> have is a WAG with a +/- of several years margin of area.  Can ya'll 
> supply
> a more definitive and authoritative answer.  I will pass along all your
> replies to the librarian.
> Thanks
> John Parks
> Boise, ID
> My name is Tonia Totten and I work at the Bristol Public Library and I'm
> writing to you on behalf of a library patron who has a question that
> hopefully you will be able to answer. The patron wants to know when the
> first diesel powered bulldozers were made
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