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I am looking for Information on a LeRoi Crawler. All I can seem to find online is that the were built for the Normandy Invasion in WWII. We have a crawler that we will be selling for an estate that is marked LeRoi above the radiator, and want to confirm this is the correct maker. Any help would be appreciated.

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Jason
 
(quoted from post at 18:11:56 02/22/16) You have a picture? Is it just a LeRoi engine and the crawler is a Clark Airborne unit
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It says LeRoi on the front above the radiator, no other markings that I can see. It has been painted Allis Orange, but appears to be grey underneath.
 

That's what I originally thought, knowing they made engines for other manufacturers and power units, but there is no other markings.
 
Allis Chalmers made some LeRoi engies, they were the WD engine. Saw this in one of the Books on
the Allis Company. The engine in the small shovel that a friend has is one of them, only slight
differences in things like the water pump. The rest looks the same.

If this crawler is really a D Day machine it is extra important that it be saved to a good home.
 
(quoted from post at 21:34:01 02/22/16) March 10th, Buffalo Center Iowa.
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Here's some info from the past:

http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=crawlers&th=3566

From Gas Engine Magazine in the Dec/Jan 2000 isssue:

35/12/1 LeRoi Crawler Q. I recently purchased a LeRoi crawler tractor in Belgium. It has LeRoi on the front and sides of the radiator, but also has a plaque on the instrument panel, TOBIAS TRACTOR MODEL G-140. LeRoi was in Milwaukee and Tobias was at Oakland, California.

I have been told this tractor was made for the U.S. military for the Normandy landings in World War Two. I recently met two retired Army persons who said they had three attached to their unit, and the other said that they were used in France and Belgium during the war.

Can anyone provide further information? Geoffrey Morison, Upper Neatham Mill Farm, Upper Neatham Mill Lane, Holybourne, Alton, Hampshire GU34 4EP England.
 
Maybe you mixed up LeRoi with Buda ? LeRoi was always independent , making engines and monoblock air compressors , then after being purchased by Westinghouse Air Brake , -WABCO- using several different brands of engines to run their rotary air compressors, including Detroit Diesel , IHC gas and Ford ( Dagenham ) Diesels . I believe they are out of business now with their last owner Dresser Ind. being purchased by Komatsu .....
Oh , We have the remains of a LeRoi dozer at the AGSEM show at Vista Ca.
 
I suspect this crawler was built for the D-Day invasion in WWII and was to be carried in a glider. A friend of mine and his group is completing the restoration of a glider for their museum at Whiteman AFB, MO and they have pictures of gliders with small bulldozers loaded in center of the fuselage.
 
Leroi compressor had a factory for years at Sidney ohio. They installed air compressors on tractors for road work and other uses.Don't know if it's the same one.
 
No I didn't mix up LeRoi with Buda. I know AC purchased Buda to get a diesel for the WD45.

In ALLIS-CHALMERS FARM EQUIPMENT 1914-1985, by Norm Swinford, on page 195, while discussing power units based on the W-201 engine he states, "This engine was also sold to LeRoi on an OEM basis". And as I stated the LeRoi engine looks just like an AC W-201, the WD engine, inside and out.
 
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