#60 Holt Caterpillar Tractor

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1918

Earliest track-type gasoline-powered tractor, influencing designs worldwide

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The first practical demonstration of this tractor took place in a peat field on Roberts Island on November 24, 1904, and was patented and in production by December of 1907. The existing machine represents the earliest gasoline-powered track-type tractors that were to help revolutionize agriculture, logging, construction, road building, and transportation around the world. Its design and development is credited to Benjamin Holt (1849-1920), president of the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton.

 

Location

1201 North Pershing Avenue
Stockton, CA 95203

Visiting Info

[please confirm] regular hours: 1:30-5 pm except Monday, 209-462-4116

Ceremony Notes

April 1981

Owner

Pioneer Museum/Haggin Gallery

Links

Haggin Museum: http://www.hagginmuseum.org