Ww2 armoured bulldozer

I'm glad you have joined us. Thanks for posting these most unusual and rare pictures. I think you are right, it looks like a D-7. I don't know for sure when the 3T series started so maybe a 7M? The replies will let us know soon.:confused2:
Thanks,
Craig

Thanks for posting, Can you Imagine the Noise and the Heat for the operator, I guess it was one of the better places to be when the bullets were flying.

Thanks for posting, Can you Imagine the Noise and the Heat for the operator, I guess it was one of the better places to be when the bullets were flying.

One of these still exists here in a UK LINK club members collection, complete with full armour. I'm not sure of the serial number.
It would not be a pleasant experience driving one of these, especially in hot weather !

Thank you Guys for all your replies.
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This picture below is the Dozer that I saw at the War & Peace show here in England just one week ago. Could it be the same one in the crumpled pictures?

The tractor is a D7 with a series No starting 1T, I have come across a few on Farms but they all have been stripped of the armour plate, it would seem the plate would find a second life by the Farmer as wear strip etc on soil cultivating kit, I am stripping the remains of 1 down slowly to re-build a 3T series tractor for a Farmers son, they had offset track pads and as already stated an odd blade setup, there is 1 or more around in the U.K. in full WW2 spec.
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My first thought was the hydraulics where to new for WW2 .Most the ram set ups of that time transferred the weight to the track frame.The inside dozer frame is similar to LaPlat set up ,which did have a hardnose set for 4R D6 I have seen.But some body had to have the first hardnose to lift the blade.


So to further my education how many T series D7 are there? The 3T being most common in US and 4T and 5T for the military and now a 1T in UK.

[quote="Ray54"]My first thought was the hydraulics where to new for WW2 .Most the ram set ups of that time transferred the weight to the track frame.The inside dozer frame is similar to LaPlat set up ,which did have a hardnose set for 4R D6 I have seen.But some body had to have the first hardnose to lift the blade.


So to further my education how many T series D7 are there? The 3T being most common in US and 4T and 5T for the military and now a 1T in UK.[/quote]There was a 6T for the NAVY. It had 6 bottom rollers.

Hi Ray,
by my ACMOC S/No book for Track Type Machines 1925-1960 on page 44 under the 7M machine group is the 1T listed as Armoured built Peoria in 1943, and with 1138 units built.
Cheers,
Eddie B.