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The Caterpillar Sixty is a
Caterpillar produced model Sixty tractors in
Caterpillar Sixty
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The Caterpillar Sixty is a crawler tractor
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manufactured by the Caterpillar Tractor Company
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from 1925 until 1931. The Sixty was the largest tractor in Caterpillar's product line at that time.
The Caterpillar Sixty was originally introduced for sale beginning in 1919 as the C. L. Best 60 Tracklayer, manufactured by the C. L. Best Tractor Company. The Best 60 was the most successful tractor in the Best model line. After the 1925 merger of the C. L. Best Tractor Company and the Holt Manufacturing Company that formed the Caterpillar Tractor Company, the Best 60 was renamed the Caterpillar Sixty.
Between 1919 and 1931, 18,948 C. L. Best 60 Tracklayer/Caterpillar Sixty tractors were manufactured.
Specifications
The Caterpillar Sixty was powered by a four-cylinder, overhead valve gasoline engine that produced at the belt and at the drawbar. The Sixty was a gauge machine and weighed .Numbers produced
Caterpillar produced model Sixty tractors in San Leandro, California
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through 1930 and in Peoria, Illinois
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through 1931. In total, 18,948 C. L. Best 60 Tracklayer/Caterpillar Sixty tractors were manufactured during twelve years of production.
See also
*G-numbers
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, G022 army ordnance tractor.
* Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant
Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (russian: Челябинский тракторный завод, Chelyabinskiy traktornyy zavod, abbreviated , ) also known as CTZ-Uraltrak (''ЧТЗ-УРАЛТРАК'') is a tractor construction plant in the Russian ...
, manufactured copy of Caterpillar Sixty as Stalinets-60
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