I have ecently bought a Allis Chalmers WM crawler, 1942. I am wondering if anyone can help me as to what they would have been used for in the war? Would they have been used in combat? There is plenty of green paint under the orange and I know the WM is the military version of the M. Any help would be very grateful.[ATTACH=CONFIG]81236[/ATTACH]
I have several photos of WM Dozers. One is of the green military kind. It belonged to the, CWACs. Don't seem to see how to inert it into this message.
Maybe this is right.
The photo belongs to my brother John Bush. He would have taken it in 1948.
The Equipment is Buckeye, Ohio. I never saw any other make on those tractors.
I was talking to a friend who drove one last evening and he said they were OK unless yo let the cable go slack, "And then they were a bugger." he said.
I used to have a Cat D7 with cable blade but the cable was short and on the front of the radiator
I drove an Allis HD7 with hydraulic equipment for a few days once and nearly bruised my knees off. Would have been OK for midgets to drive. It had a nice GM engine
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I have several photos of WM Dozers. One is of the green military kind. It belonged to the, CWACs. Don't seem to see how to inert it into this message.
Maybe this is right.
The photo belongs to my brother John Bush. He would have taken it in 1948.
The Equipment is Buckeye, Ohio. I never saw any other make on those tractors.
I was talking to a friend who drove one last evening and he said they were OK unless yo let the cable go slack, "And then they were a bugger." he said.
I used to have a Cat D7 with cable blade but the cable was short and on the front of the radiator
I drove an Allis HD7 with hydraulic equipment for a few days once and nearly bruised my knees off. Would have been OK for midgets to drive. It had a nice GM engine
Alun