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Track Marshall was a brand of
earthmoving
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Shoring structures
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equipment who were active during
WWII
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building
tank
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s. Later, they produced a range of
crawler tractor
Continuous track is a system of vehicle propulsion used in tracked vehicles, running on a continuous band of treads or track plates driven by two or more wheels. The large surface area of the tracks distributes the weight of the vehicle b ...
s, based on the wheeled tractor ''
Field Marshall
Field-Marshall was a brand of farm tractor which was manufactured by Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom.
Field-Marshalls were in production from 1945 to 1957. However, the first single-cylinder Marshall ...
'' brand. In 1956 the first Track Marshall
bulldozer model was introduced and later the Challenger 3 followed by the Challenger 33, the ''TM55'' and also the successful six-cylinder ''TM70'' (probably equivalent to a
Caterpillar D5). They also built the TM 955 track loader (a ''drott'') and also a range of rubber tracked bulldozers. The company was in business for some 50 years, eventually closing in 1990 after new machines replaced older technology.
Tractor manufacturers of the United Kingdom
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