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Majorman

Majorman

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Case LA on Roadless tracks. My old company used to sell these in the late 1940's and early 1950's. They were also sealed in a casing and used for lifeboat recovery tractors.
Roadless Case
 
MajorMan just curious- was that life boat recovery in fresh water or salt water? I had posted on here a long while back that while my wife and I had spent a week in Holland on vacation maybe 15 years ago and while on the coast and out of nowhere appeared what looked to be a Coast Guard vessel near the beaches edge. Then a tractor of some mark sort pulling a very large trailer-backs it up almost until the trailer disappears- and pulls the vessel out of the water and moves off down the beach going somewhere it seems. We just thought it was a strange occurrence to us anyway. Wingnut
 
Yes, they launch and recover from the sea just as you saw. Back in the 1880's they used horses but around the 1920's Roadless demonstrated a full tracked Fordson F as an alternative. It was so successful that the idea took off all around the coast. Roadless used Case L's and LA's and they got quite complicated keeping the engines water free. When they went out of business a couple of other companies started to build specialist machines or convert second hand County's as in my picture a couple of days ago. In England, as in Holland, we are never too far from the sea and those tractors and lifeboats have saved many lives.
 
I hope you still see this and reply, I am curious as to how long or how serviceable the brakes were when fitted with tracks. seems to me would take a lot of hard breaking to steer the tractor. Dozer on tracks have clutches in the rear and as one brakes he also disconnects power to that side. Here in that application power would still be full to either or both sides.
 
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