Hi
I am new to this Forum so go easy on me

Throughout the second World War, & until 1947 my late Father, a Royal Engineers Sapper was the operator of various Bulldozers with the British Army in Europe

At Juno Beach on D Day 6th June 1944 & attached to the 3rd Canadians my Father was the operator of the Armoured Bulldozer in the attached Photographs. I understand that there was only one or maybe two of these machines on Juno on 6th July 1944. Perhaps someone could confirm?

I am not sure of the exact date these pictures were taken, but I am told this is a D7? This is the first time these crumpled pictures have been seen in public

Having seen one of these Dozers at the War & peace show here in the UK last week, I really wanted to know how many of these machines were manufactured & how many survive?

Regards

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.
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.

Nice.

Inside mount blade, saw that once on a Navy TD-18, rigid track frames made for a 'ROUGH' ride and rather hard to operate.

...and the tracks are on backwards.

Thank you Guys for all your replies.

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.

"Ray54" wrote:

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.

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.