All right, there was life and movement in it, if you want to call a long line of tractors standing end to end on the far side, one of them snail-active, life and movement.
The big lifting cranes stood out just as sharply, and although the zigzaggingtractors looked like painted toys, red and blue and yellow, I would have sworn under oath that not one of them cast a shadow.
I gestured toward the tractors on the far side of the square.
But you can feel certain about something like that and go right on remembering what big tractors have done at various times in the past to men unfortunate enough to be caught off guard when there's a killer in the driver's seat.
The Endicott square had been unpopulated, with just one tractor moving out from the long line of tractors on the far side.
The ersatz amphibious force steamed into position, launched amphibian tractors and Higgins boats, loaded them conspicuously with combat-equipped Marines, then dispatched them towards Minatoga Beach in seven waves.
As we reached the shore we were helped a great deal by amphibian tractors that had come down the coast with supplies,” said Colonel Snedeker of the 7th Marines, “Otherwise we couldn’t get supplies overland.
This factor would lead to the further development of amphibian tractors in the LVT family during the war.
The LVT-1 then joined up with other amphibian tractors to form up an assault wave.
Corriston walked out between the tractors and raised his voice so that everyone within earshot could hear him.
Thirty caterpillar tractorsand two hundred and ten men.
A half hour later the tractors were in rumbling motion again, their destination Ramsey's Citadel.
All along the wide, rust-red street othertractors came to life.
Even inside thetractors it set up an almost intolerable roaring in the eardrums, and when it struck the wind-guards head on the battered vehicles shook.
And just for a change a few of them descended from the tractorsand advanced on foot, keeping a little ahead of the swaying vehicles.
A full minute before he heard the dull rumble of the tractors as they came through the gate, and went to the window and stared down, he knew.
The other tractors had come to a halt a much greater distance from the Citadel, and were spread out across the desert in a slightly uneven, double line.
Often they would start up again almost immediately but equally often they would remain stalled for several minutes, and at times there were more stalled tractors than moving ones across the entire line of advance.
The women knew that endurance would be needed, for twenty-first century weapons of warfare could destroy a hundred tractors and spatter the desert with blood before retaliation could become complete and justice be fully satisfied.
There was a split second of shouting from one of the tractors and then it started up, with a coughing and spitting that drowned out the human voices.
Five colony tractors had followed him into the Citadel and two more were just coming through the gate, moving ponderously on their caterpillar treads because each tractor weighed two tons even in the light gravity of Mars.
Upon the ground huge tractorsand trucks, manned by masked soldiery, mounted mighty reflectors projecting the same lethal beam.
Seven mighty greentractors would lash out, seize an attacking sphere, and snap it into the center of mass of the unit of seven.
Throughout the production of tractors during the war period there was continuous and persistent experimentation, and satisfactory solutions of many of the problems were being reached at the time of the signing of the armistice.
By the end of the following January, 5,940 of the tractors had been delivered.
Manufacturers who had orders for the caterpillartractors were: Holt Manufacturing Co.
The most powerful tractors are mounted on track-laying devices and are colloquially known as caterpillars.
The self-propelled caterpillar gun mounts differ from the ordinary caterpillar tractors in that they have the guns mounted directly on them, the guns forming an integral part of the entire machine.
As he closed his eyes he could see great trees come crashing down, see little tractors dragging massive logs through the bush, see those logs splash into the water to form a raft to at last go drifting silently down the river.
Conoley's battalion had a dwindling supply of ammunition, but amphibian tractors could not begin making supply runs until it became light enough for the drivers to avoid tree roots and fallen trunks as they navigated the damp flat.
Some of the agricultural tractors came in useful as aids to the heavy artillery in the retreat.
But when ploughing began with tractorsother unexpected difficulties cropped up.
Perkinism, as the doctrine of metallic tractors was styled, had some converts among scientific men, and many among the people but was violently opposed by the regular corps of physicians and surgeons.
This shortage of tractors would plague the brigade until well after W-Day.
As the amphibian tractors circled (about 0615) near the line of departure, a flight of attack aircraft from the Wasp drowned out the whine of the amtrac engines and whirled up clouds of fire and dust, obscuring the landing beaches ahead.
Illustration: Laden amphibious tractors carry troops of the 22d Marines in the assault wave to Yellow Beaches 1 and 2 south of Agat in the Southern Sector.
As the frontlines advanced, succeeding waves of amphibian tractors will carry the troops further inland.
And with all his power Roger could not shift his vessel's position in the grip of Triplanetary's tractors sufficiently to bring a projector to bear upon the super-ship along the now unprotected axis of that narrow, but deadly tube.
The massive insulating doors were shut, the metal side of the mountain opened, and huge, squat caterpillar tractors came roaring and clanking into the room.
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The electropathic girdles of our own time had their anti-type in Perkin's far-famed tractors for preserving health, for which the proprietor demanded the sum of five guineas a set.
The wonderful properties attributed to them were set forth in a small book, entitled The Influence of the Metallic Tractors on the Body.
And Rodebush drove down similar beams, and forward-reaching tractors as well.
The French Department of Agriculture purchased in America nineteen teams of ten tractors apiece in the autumn of last year.
Every now and then we pass steam-tractors at work, ploughing huge fields into regular furrows.
The early tractorswere not without their problems.
Halfway up the valley the character of the places seemed to change, the houses had the look of needing paint, the weeds were taller along the fences, and there were no silos nortractors to be seen.
Other cars passed them, driven by prosperous farmers, the growl and clatter of motor tractors sounded from the fields on either hand.
Unloading was done quickly, 155mm guns and their tractors soon made mud and made a slime which made walking around difficult to say the least.
The battalion acquired three Landing Vehicle Tracked Alligator amphibious tractors for the operation, and then was augmented by a whole amphibious tractor platoon of nine vehicles from the 3d Marine Division.
Tanks, guns, and vehicles of all types mired down in the incredible mud and only the sturdiest tractors or manpower extricated them.
All tractors were damaged eventually in the Japanese air attacks that followed.
Our camp was pitched by the time I had made the trip from Toul by rail, and the array of tents and the park of tractors had every outward appearance of a country circus.
The amphibian tractors carrying the 3d Battalion, 382d Infantry, were held up by the tank barriers of coconut logs and debris on the beach, and the troops were forced to debark at the water's edge.
The 1st Cavalry Division utilized motor transport, LVT's, tractors and trailers, native carriers, and airdrops to get supplies to forward troops.
The 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry, landed in amphibian tractors on the north end of White Beach a few minutes after initial assault waves of the 2d Squadron, 7th Cavalry, had cleared the beach.
In the afternoon a platoon of amphibian tractors and another of amphibian tanks were sent to the aid of the battalion, and engineers from the 13th Engineer Battalion constructed temporary bridges over the river when necessary.
There was always mud, which made traction difficult, and the LVT's were better able than the tractors to navigate through slick, soft mud which had little body texture.
The tractors wound their way laboriously into the foothills through boulder-strewn streams and up steep inclines that made it necessary for the tractors to be arranged in tandem.
The supplies were manhandled from the LVT's into one-ton two-wheeled cargo and ammunition trailers, which were towed by the tractors of the artillery battalions that fired in support of the division.
Earlier, at 1430, Company K had made a reconnaissance in amphibian tractors from Capoocan to a point just west of Pinamopoan.
It ought to cover the use of tractors and threshing sets and the installation and distribution of power.
The idea of the machine in Colonel Estienne’s mind was the result of his work throughout the year 1915, during which period he had seen Holt tractors in use with British artillery units.
The Holt caterpillar is the outstanding American design for tractors which has been adopted during the war.
It would be quite easy in a short time to fit up a number of steam tractors with small armoured shelters, in which men and machine-guns could be placed, which would be bullet-proof.
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