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James Peck jamesgpeck at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 26 17:27:50 PST 2019


We know that Cat sold a tractor plant to the Soviets in the 1930's which gave the Soviets the background to manufacture ww2 tanks. What had the Soviets developed in that short period of time that Fiat wanted to copy. The Italian Army participated in the Battle of Stalingrad. Would that have been where the Soviet tractors were seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad

(Link] In 1944, production at the Modena plant was halted by the lack of raw materials and the Nazi occupation, leading to its conversion for the repair and overhaul of military vehicles. Against this backdrop, the Chief Design Engineer Edmondo Tascheri began work on the design of a new crawler tractor, to be more modern than the now obsolete Series 40 Boghetto, with the aid of a few photographs of a Russian tractor brought back from the Soviet Front by some workmen. Assisted by the connivance of collaborators, the Technical Department started to build a secret prototype unbeknown to the German controllers. The resulting Fiat 50 crawler tractor was produced after the Second World War, starting in 1946, thanks in part to the recovery of the machine tools the Nazi occupiers had attempted to ship to Germany before their plans were thwarted by the allied bombing raids.[8]

 [james}  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Trattori



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