Artillery tractor
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An artillery tractor, also referred to as a gun tractor, is a specialized heavy-duty form of tractor unit used to tow artillery pieces of varying weights and calibres. It may be wheeled, tracked, or h
Wheeled British WWII Scammell Pioneer towing an 8-inch howitzer
Tracked Finnish WWII Komsomolets (captured from USSR)
Half-tracked German Sd.Kfz. 7 towing an 8.8cm Flak
German RSO artillery tractor towing 105 mm howitzer, Albania, 1943
Scammell Pioneer
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The Scammell Pioneer was a British 6×4 tractor unit used in World War II as an artillery tractor, recovery vehicle and tank transporter.
Artillery tractor
…Krupp Protze – Germany, 1933; towed the 3.7 cm PaK Scammell Pioneer – British, 1937; lorry used for heavy artillery Morris C8 – UK, 1938; the "Quad" British tractor; towed the 25-pdr gun, 6-pdr AT gun, and 40-mm Bofors…
The prototype tank transporter of 1929, H 22509, loading a Medium Mark II
Pioneer artillery tractors in the London Victory Parade, June 1946
Pioneer recovering a Universal Carrier, Sussex 1941