who seen one of these

[pudding]

ford 600 military tractor

[Tractorman810]

saw a pic of one a long time ago at the airshow at mildenhall think they had them there to from memory

[pudding]

they would be a interesting bit of kit to come across......look good in my shed

friend in belguim is still waiting for his SAME aircraft tractor, thats one of the most unique SAME i have seen

might do a bit of searching for mildenhall

[Gav836]

Mildenhall is on the Norfolk/Suffolk border here in East Anglia Pudding, it has a very large RAF base there which holds an air show, website for the base is linked below

http://www.mildenhall.af.mil/

http://www.militaryairshows.co.uk/ven4.htm

[pudding]

theres the SAME aircraft tractor

who else built one??

i know about the DB ones, etc.......i also seen a few ford 5000 based ones

anyone got any pics

[Kiwi6920]

There must be a MF built one pudd, yeah there was te20 i think

[Kiwi6920]

I thourght there was more around, i guess every tractor maker during the war would have airfiled specials

[pudding]

hey nick, you want a TEA ya best keep ya ear to the ground

gisborne had a TEA20 set up with industrial mudguards etc up to only a few years back, they now replaced it with a kawasaki mule........the TEA20 would be a better machine ha ha!.....and i don't know what air new zealand did with those tractors, were they went, i am sure they are somewhere

i think there is still tugs at the christchurch airport in use, based on ford 5000 skid units

the nicest airport tractor i have seen is the one in one of the UK tractor mags a couple months back, was a DB taskmaster? with a torqueconverter and cab.........

ya find all sorts when you type military tractor into google!

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt/japanese-wwii-motor-vehicles-trucks.html