Rubber Tracks for Agriculture

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

SLEMMONS, C. O., author.

Conference Name:

Milwaukee Section of the SAE

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1945

Summary:

MANY agricultural engineers have long sought means of utilizing the undoubted advantages of track-laying vehicles; that is, superior traction and flotation. However, because of mechanical inefficiencies and high cost, tracks had not gained any wide-spread favor until the development of the rubber track shortly before the war.The impetus of war brought a period of intensive research into the uses of rubber tracks, and Mr. Slemmons believes that the rubber track is destined to be more and more widely used in farm work.In this article he discusses in detail the means by which rubber tracks have been applied to various vehicles. He discusses these tracks under the three general headings:

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Publisher Number:

450234

Access Restriction:

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