[AT] Durn Hollywood crazies forgot the tractor

[James Peck]

This mentions Holts being used in WW1 to move artillery. It does not mention them being used by the forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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


Carl AT List member and tank knowledge resource (szabelski at wildblue.net);  I was once told that the allies would listen for the tractors to start up and would direct their cannon fire in the direction the sound was coming from.

With the large size of some of the WWI cannons, it took six to eight draft type horses to move them. The spring mud and craters didn’t make for an easy task.

James AT List Member (jamesgpeck at hotmail.com); One story my father had recounted was that big Austrian estate owners (think Baron von Trapp)  had imported some tracked Holts or Bests prior to WW1.  Came a time when the Americans and allies were trying to figure out how the other side was moving their artillery at night.  It was those tractors.