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

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

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.

cable controlled blades
 

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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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)

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

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

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Those are IHC TD18's.

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

The US Navy one I posted looks even better to me, just on appearance alone, mind :) Hydraulically operated blade like the British vehicles, but a fully enclosed cab with a big visor that can be opened for better visibility outside of immediate danger. It almost looks like a 2.0 version of the British ones, but I couldn’t find out anything more about it when I tried on finding those pictures.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder :) Have not seen it before, I reckon the US Navy one could be a one-off.

The open cab on the British one offers less protection of course but a much better view to operate the dozer.

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A famous photo taken on NAN WHITE Beach at Bernières-sur-Mer - read more here: https://flic.kr/p/UTh3hV

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Not sure it’s a one-off, it seems fairly elaborate with those curved armour plates. But it’s proving frustratingly hard to find out more about that US Navy one — what part of, “Google, I want things that refer to the Navy” doesn’t that stupid site understand?

But in trying that, I did come across yet another, captioned as a “Caterpillar D-8 Tractor with Armored Cab”:

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Also this one, showing the cab being fitted to one of the bulldozers in the photo Patrice posted:

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At least, it’s most likely one of those, because that shows seven with the same armour plating, and these plywood templates for that have “7 required” and “14 required” written on them:

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Nice finds, Jakko!