Don't have any of my research documents available as I'm out of town with the day job for the next week. But when I still had my T-16 we'd come across references that the TD census numbers corresponded to tracked prime movers. Mine had the TD markings but we'd restored it to be a 4.2-inch mortar carrier.
Link below is from my restoration thread on MLU showing the project as we got it and the progression. We sold it years later and its in a private museum in California.
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=9136
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