M4 tractor

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The M4 high-speed tractor for

The M4 was built by tractor manufacturer

After the war many types of these tractors were stripped of their military components and used for log skidders and power line construction. Many were used as carriers for rock drills, used in logging road construction in British Columbia. The first prototype was designed in the early 1960s by G.M. Philpott Ltd. of Vancouver, BC, and Scott-Douglas Industries, who supplied the M4 Carrier. It was used by MacMillan, Bloedel, and Powell River Company at their Juskatla, BC logging operation. Many improvements were made and when Finning Tractor later bought G.M. Philpott, the machine became the Finning Tank Drill. At least 500 were built, many of which are still in service. The original Finning Tank Drill was replaced by the M32F and M40F Tank Drills, which used larger Sherman tank carriers.^{[citation needed]}

At Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands, at least two refurbished M4s were used by the airport fire brigade in the 1960s and '70s. During the mid-80s and into the early 90s, many M-4s were converted into exhibition vehicles used for car crushing and dubbed "monster tanks", William Townes's "Virginia Beach Beast" Chevrolet K-5 Blazer being among the first.^[2]

• Robert Gill Collection militarymuseum.at, Vienna, Austria
• Armed Forces Military Museum, Largo, Florida.^{[citation needed]}2 pieces in the Robert Gill Collection militarymuseum.at, Vienna Austria
• Fort Sill Museum, Oklahoma^{[citation needed]}
• Gunfire Museum, Brasschaat, Belgium^{[citation needed]}
• National Military Museum in
  The Netherlands^{[citation needed}
  ]
• Tel Aviv, Israel^{[citation needed}
  ]
• Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles in Lexington, Nebraska^{[citation needed]}
• Marshall Museum in Lexington, Virginia^{[citation needed}
  ]
• private collection in Colorado^{[citation needed]}
• private collection in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania^{[citation needed]}
• private collection in Grand Prairie, Texas^{[citation needed]}
• private collection in
  UK^{[citation needed}
  ]
• Royal Dutch Army historical collection
  The Netherlands^{[citation needed}
  ]
• private collection in Molsheim, France^{[citation needed]}
• private collection in O'Neill, Nebraska^{[citation needed]}
• private collection in Orlando, Florida^{[citation needed]}
• private collection in
  Troyes, France^{[citation needed}
  ]
• private collection in National Military Vehicle Museum, South Australia^{[citation needed]}
• private collection in Sydney Australia as of April 2022^{[citation needed]}

• List of U.S. military vehicles by supply catalog designation
  (G150)
• List of U.S. military vehicles by model number
• M5 tractor
• M6 tractor
• Raupenschlepper, Ost

Notes

Bibliography

• "US Army M-4 High Speed Tractor". olive-drab.com. Retrieved 27 August 2007.
• "TM-9-2800-1947 Military Vehicles". US Dept. of the Army. 27 October 1947. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
• TM 9-785 18-Ton High Speed Tractors M4, M4A1, M4C, M4A1C
• SNL G150
• the Field Artillery Journal, September 1945 references the M4A1 as an ammunition hauler for M40 Gun sections.
• Doyle, David (2003). Standard catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles. Kraus Publications. pp. 402–403.
  ISBN 0-87349-508-X
  .

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