Armoured Dozer

[Jakko Westerbeke]

A minor part of these bulldozers, but I found PDFs of original manuals for the winches used on the D6A and D7A:

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The serial numbers indicated are technically not for the armoured versions, but the D6A was basically a D6-5R with an armoured cab and hydraulic dozer blade and the D7A was a similarly modified D7-7M, so I doubt the winches would have been very different.

Edit: I just realised that site is making linking to the right page difficult. In the menu on the left, choose Allied Winch → Operator’s Manuals → Archive to find the ones I mentioned above.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Nice find Jakko!

Good to see some manufacturers still provide this sort of information to the users of their products.

[Jakko Westerbeke]

There is probably more stuff there that some restorers might find useful, but I didn’t really look beyond a quick glance.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

D7A No.31 "GLADY'S", Rue de la Gare at Caen, read more here: https://flic.kr/p/2b1zaVX

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[Jakko Westerbeke]

Nice find

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Armoured Dozer with the number IT1019 at Blainville (Calvados), France - read more here https://flic.kr/p/26Vw7u1

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

And here is 1T3037 - read more here: https://flic.kr/p/UQuecL

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[Lynn Eades]

Jakko, There were other options for winches (for those who dont know) There were (Carco ?) twin drum winches used on "cable controlled" equipment. Some Cats (D7) had cable controlled blades and a second drum was used to operate the bowl on a scraper. I assume the millitary dozers used in airfield construction were fitted with them?