The Holt tractors were a range of continuous track haulers built by the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California which were named after company...

first workable crawler ("caterpillar") tractor design, incorporated the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1892. Holt Manufacturing Company was the first company...

thousand of Holt's Caterpillar tractors were used by the British in World War I. Holt vice president Murray M. Baker said that these tractors weighed about...

first artillery tractors were designed prior to the outbreak of World War I, often based on agricultural machines such as the Holt tractor. Such vehicles...

merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company and the C. L. Best Tractor Company, creating a new entity, California-based Caterpillar Tractor Company. In 1986...

failed. Holt bought the patents related to the "chain track" track-type tractor from Richard Hornsby & Sons in 1914 for £4,000. Unlike the Holt tractor, which...

patent was purchased by Holt.[citation needed] First Chain Tracked Tractor (1905, Richard Hornsby & Sons) Hornsby Chain Tracked Tractor (1907 enhanced Version)...

Benjamin Holt of the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California was the first to file a US patent for a workable crawler type tractor in 1907....

first tank prototype (itself directly taken from the track design of the Holt tractor), and was unsprung. The crew compartment was a fixed, polygonal turret...

whilst the Holt managed to cross the whole 750 feet width of it. To improve its performance on poor ground, with the trial against the Holt tractor in mind...

Swinton, (Royal Engineers) heard of the cross-country, caterpillar-tracked Holt tractor in June 1914. In October, Swinton thought of a machine-gun destroyer...

Hugh Marriott, a mining engineer, who drew his attention to a Holt caterpillar tractor that Marriott had seen in Belgium. Marriott thought that it might...

artillery tractors in January 1915. On 30 January it sent out its chief designer, Brillié, to investigate tracked tractors from the American Holt Company...

officers, Robert Francis Macfie, had been investigating the use of Holt tractors which ran on continuous tracks. When Macfie suggested that they be used...

mount on Holt tractor – Experimental chassis designed by J Walter Christie – M1920. 105 mm howitzer motor carriage T9 (based on Cletrac MG-2 tractor). 105 mm...

with the A7V tank; both having suspension derived from the American Holt tractor and twin 100 hp Daimler engines centrally mounted. A driving position...

kilometres per hour (7.5 mph). The running gear was based on the American Holt tractor, copied from examples loaned by the Austro-Hungarian Army. After initial...

a job repairing a Holt crawler tractor, and was then employed by the tractor owner to level 40 acres [160,000 m2] using the tractor and a towed scraper...

1910 (later the C. L. Best Tractor Company) then merged his company with Holt Manufacturing Company to form Caterpillar Tractor Company in 1925. C. L. Best...

was based on caterpillar tracks of the type found on the American Holt Tractors. Initially unconvinced that tanks were a serious threat, the High Command...

but failed. Benjamin Holt of the Holt Manufacturing Company bought the patents related to the "chain track" track-type tractor from Richard Hornsby &...

"Benjamin Holt (1849–1920): The Father of the Caterpillar tractor". [permanent dead link‍] Lea, Ralph (February 16, 2008). "Ben Holt pioneered tractors for...

December 1915 to build tanks based on a modified, lengthened, Holt caterpillar. The ten Holt tractors were thus finally diverted to the production of the first...

same year. Holt Company photographer Charles Clements was reported to have observed that the tractor crawled like a caterpillar and Holt seized on the...

loads – body and cradle, bed, barrel – towed by either heavy horses or a Holt tractor. The equipment featured a segment shaped ground platform assembled from...

with the nearby Avery Tractor Company. Holt was credited with producing the first practical continuous tracks for use with tractors and he registered "Caterpillar"...

tank, 400 each of the Schneider and Saint-Chamond, both based on the Holt tractor. The following year, the French pioneered the use of a full 360° rotation...

January 1915 and tried to build a first armoured vehicle based on the Baby Holt tractor but initially the development process was slow until in July they received...

(totaling 320 pieces of 155 L de Bange), while ten regiments used motorized tractors for transportation and had a mixture of 155 L de Bange and 120 L de Bange...

mounting was for cross-country mobility, and they would be towed by a Holt tractor or other vehicle. The Marines ordered 20 of these guns, with the Army...