Armoured Dozer

Hanno Spoelstra · #1 09-02-23, 09:44

D7A No.31 "GLADY'S", Rue de la Gare at Caen, read more here: https://flic.kr/p/2b1zaVX

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Jakko Westerbeke · #2 09-02-23, 11:13

Nice find

Hanno Spoelstra · #3 09-02-23, 11:35

Armoured Dozer with the number IT1019 at Blainville (Calvados), France - read more here https://flic.kr/p/26Vw7u1

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Hanno Spoelstra · #4 09-02-23, 18:53

And here is 1T3037 - read more here: https://flic.kr/p/UQuecL

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Lynn Eades · #5 09-02-23, 19:37

Jakko, There were other options for winches (for those who dont know) There were (Carco ?) twin drum winches used on "cable controlled" equipment. Some Cats (D7) had cable controlled blades and a second drum was used to operate the bowl on a scraper. I assume the millitary dozers used in airfield construction were fitted with them?

tankbarrell · #6 09-02-23, 21:10

The wartime twin drum winches were LeTourneau, the single drum were Hyster, afaik. I think Carco and Caterpillar equipment were post war fitments.

Andrew Rowe · #7 10-02-23, 06:10

I have Carco winches on my bulldozers that date from the 50's, Cheers Andrew.

Jakko Westerbeke · #8 10-02-23, 11:01

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Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Jakko, There were other options for winches

On non-armoured dozers, AFAIK, yes — I think there was quite a variety of stuff used on those, in terms of winches, dozer blades, etc. My main interest in these typesof vehicles are the British armoured D6 and D7 dozers, though, and those all had Hyster D6N resp. D7N models, to the best of my knowledge.

Hanno Spoelstra · #9 10-02-23, 13:57

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Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Jakko, There were other options for winches (for those who dont know) There were (Carco ?) twin drum winches used on "cable controlled" equipment. Some Cats (D7) had cable controlled blades and a second drum was used to operate the bowl on a scraper. I assume the millitary dozers used in airfield construction were fitted with them?

AFAIK only the US Dozer had cable controlled blades? At least the British Armoured Dozers did not use cable controlled blades.

"[US] Combat engineers dig out this caterpillar bulldozer which became stuck in a muddy bomb crater while clearing off a road north of Marigny. 27/07/44" - read more here: https://flic.kr/p/kfTv9D

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Lynn Eades · #10 10-02-23, 20:39

Adrian, you are correct. Not Carco, but Le Tourneau. My grandfather owned for a time, 7M8038. I have what remains of his book (I should have looked at it before my first post, here) The book lists models: T, FTD7, R, and N series model winches (cable control units). The book was published Feb. 42. I also have the book (TM-5-9150) on the previously mentioned Hyster D7N Towing winch (Feb 44)

Jakko Westerbeke · #11 11-02-23, 11:06

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

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Is that some kind of improvised armoured cab, or a standard fitting? It’s definitely not the M2 cab:

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Also, there is this US Navy one I came across:

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(source)

There are several more photos of it in the Flickr account I found it in.

Patrice DEBUCQUOY · #12 11-02-23, 11:47

Another one, said to be SeaBee (WW2 ? Postwar ? )

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Hanno Spoelstra · #13 11-02-23, 18:46

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Originally Posted by Jakko Westerbeke

Is that some kind of improvised armoured cab, or a standard fitting? It’s definitely not the M2 cab:

I think it is an improvised cab. Of all the armoured dozers I have seen on here, I think the British one was the best