The US Army Overland Train. At 570 feet long it qualified as the longest off-road vehicle in history. Four IH 1170 HP Solar Saturn turbine engines drove Westinghouse generators that powered DC traction motors at the wheels. Designed and built by R G LeTourneau, one of America's great self made men. He left school at age 14 and became, among other things, a foundry worker, welder, electrician, carpenter, miner, farmer, auto mechanic and racer, land leveler using a Holt tractor and scraper, etc. His factories eventually supplied 70% of the heavy earth moving equipment used by all Allied forces in World War II. Considered to this day to be the world's greatest builder of earth moving and materials handling equipment, he was finally awarded, at age 76, an engineering degree. He remarked: "So, I have a diploma. I'm finally educated."
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Today's Featured Article - A Brief History of Tractors in Australia - by Bob Kavanagh. After Captain Cook's exploration of the east coast in 1770 the British Government decided to establish a penal colony in Australia. The first fleet arrived in 1788 and consisted mainly of convicts who were poorly equipped and new little of farming techniques. The colony remained far from self-supporting and it was not until the early 1800's that things started to improve. Free settlers started to arrive, they followed the explorers across the mountains and where land was suitable set up farms. T
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