[AT] "First" diesel crawler w/ Blade

[charlie hill]

Larry the Nebraska test book shows two seperate tests 208 & 209.  They both 
look like the same crawler but they call the first one a "diesel" and the 
second (test 209) a model 65.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
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> Another source is "Ultimate American Farm Tractor Data Book: Nebraska
> test Tractors 1920-1960 by Lorry Dunning.  ISBN 0-7603-0477-7.  This
> book has a chapter called "Power Test Timeline" that lists all the
> firsts in the series.  I get the impression from reading Dunning that
> the "Diesel" and the Cat. 65 tractors are one and the same.  But what do
> I know?  The Cat. 65 is listed as test #208.
>
> Larry
>
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:10 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AT] "First" diesel crawler w/ Blade
>
> 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
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>
>
>> 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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