In 1914, shortly before the war broke out, British Army Officer Ernest Dunlop Swinton ... adding that it is called a "Holt Caterpillar Tractor." Swinton was intrigued, but his superiors weren ...

When the war started, he enlisted in the German Army and went on to design not ... track components from a Holt Manufacturing Company tractor (now Caterpillar, makers of the first successful ...

British and French tanks inspired the US Army to design their own armored vehicle. The US tractor-turned-tank failed but influenced future tank and armored vehicle development. The US military ...