identify this crawler

bill mart · Feb 8, 2015

anyone know what make this machine is ? Bill

jm. · Feb 8, 2015

Bill In the back of my mine I am thinking the atc was American Tractor company, short lived. Wish it was closer .

dozerbill66 · Feb 8, 2015

(quoted from post at 12:04:02 02/08/15) Bill In the back of my mine I am thinking the atc was American Tractor company, short lived. Wish it was closer .

It has the track frame of a ATC .

tractorguy2 · Feb 8, 2015

I think ATC was bought out by JICase in the 60's?

Ian Beale · Feb 8, 2015

IIRC there was a bloke posting on Red Power on rebuilding one of those.

He made his own replacement track rollers as part of the job.

Dick2 · Feb 8, 2015

ATC was founded by a WWII refugee that came to this country and founded ATC - then merged ATC with Case and became President of Case.

Through stock manipulation, he made a huge amount of money and fled the country when Case went into bankruptcy.

Tubacase47 · Feb 8, 2015

Mark Rojtman did not flee the country.

Dick2 · Feb 9, 2015

That isn't the story that the Case company men told who were there at the time.

bill mart · Feb 9, 2015

thanks for the info. Bill

Willie G · Feb 9, 2015

The WW2 Army tractor, CLARK CA-1 Airborn (and no they were never parachuted, they were delivered by glider or stuffed into C-47 or C-46 aircraft) were surplus after the war. The short lived Federal Company bought up the stocks of unbuilt tractors and produced them for a short time as the USTRC crawler. After that Mark Rojtman the American Tractor Company and produced organised them as the TERRATRAC tractor. He sold ATC and Terratrac to J I Case and they became the basis of the Case crawler line. I don't know if Mark Rojtman fled the country but I understand he went to Mexico. For several years, Case crawlers still had ATC castings. I remember pointing this out to a Case factory man who brought one of the first Case diesel crawlers to my Uncle's farm to demonstrate it. He wasn't too happy with me a 13 year old wise a** kid. Unk didn't buy it, kept his D-2 Cat. Some years later he picked up a used Terratrac for light jobs. My Pop had a Terratrac M-3, crawler forklift for about 4 years.

george md · Feb 9, 2015

Bill,

It is a terratrac and one of the later
models . Early ones did not have the spoked
sprokets , they had ones that looked like a
lace curtain.

model and ser# is stamped in the top of the
frame rail by the starter, dig as it will be
full of paint.

george

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