question Re: Any info on WW2 D6 CAT????

[Danny152]

Hiya all,

 

Is there any CAT boffin's out there. I am after info on a CAT D6 all I can tell you (As the engine tag is that far gone!) Is it has a No29 Winch or pulley block on the back. I have been told these types were used for recovery on beaches on D-Day for knocked out LCTs and DDs in the water.

 

If anyone can add to this it would really help, I am a little out of depth on this one and I am hoping there is a subject matter expert out there!!!!

 

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Danny

[Adrian Barrell]

I'm not sure D6 was used much during the war, D4, D7 and D8 being the main Cats used by the military together with Allis Chalmers and Internationals.

 

The Mod 29 PCU is a Caterpillar winch which is post war as Cat did not make any attachments themselves at that time. The serial number would tell you all you needed to know. This is on a small plate, there should be one on the left hand side of the engine block and another on the back of the transmission housing. Wartime D6 is either a 4R- or 5R- prefix for wide and narrow gauge respectively.

 

A picture would help too!

[Danny152]

Thanks mate,

 

I am away with work for two weeks but will get some pics sorted!!! Its interesting all that info, I am hoping the old girl is a old CAT that has had the attachment added.

 

Cheers

 

Danny :laugh:

[Adrian Barrell]

Could be Danny, it was common enough!

[Crippy]

Hi

Don't know if this is any use but one of our members in France took ownership of this last year direct from the French Forestry department.

Everything works only problem he says is the MPG figures it actually is GPM.

 

Steve

http://s1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff501/89sbr/Sammy%20Jeep/Cat%20MVCG%2086/

[Adrian Barrell]

A very nice R4, what started out as the Cat 30. That's the way to find them!

[Danny152]

Hiya Guys,

 

Sorry been away for abit. That pics help alot. But to be honest I am still none the wiser of the old girls ID and age!!!! The engine plate is that far gone I will have to wait. I am going to get a few pics soon and place them on the forum. As the project is through the REME there is a few interested parties and hopefully be some good press for the unit helping out.

 

Will post thm on here once completed.

 

 

Cheers

 

Danny

[Degsy]

When I was at Bayeux museum in 2004 at the bottom of a field there was a wartime scraper seemingly abandoned, anybody know what's happened to it?

[Fairbairn Sykes]

On the D6 I.D. if you cannot read the data plat on the left/rear of the engine block or the top left hand of the back case, the number is also stamped under the plate, so remove the plate located with small hit in fasteners to find No stamped in case.