This is perhaps the oldest-machine walkaround you’ll ever see! The film was taken at the recent 2018 Antique Caterpillar Machinery Owners Club (ACMOC) National Show in San Antonio and highlights some of the key features of a very rare Holt 120 tractor from 1917. The beginnings of the Holt Manufacturing Company can be traced to 1883. By 1909 it had become the first company to successfully manufacture a continuous track tractor, which prompted it to change its name to Holt Caterpillar Company. In 1925, after a merger with CL Best, it became known simply as the Caterpillar Tractor Co.
How does a 101-year-old gasoline tractor work?
By Tom Stone
Tom Stone
Tom Stone is Editor of the iVT brand – which includes digital and print editions of a quarterly magazine and the Advanced Lift-truck supplement, as well as ivtinternational.com, which is updated daily. Tom has met and interviewed some of the world's leading industrial vehicle OEM presidents, CEOs and MDs, and takes great pride in cementing iVT's place as the leading forum for debate within the industry, a reputation that his been built up over the brand's 25-year history.
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