They were Serial Numbers , , , , , , and The full story is below. Added Paul, MN 57mm anti-tank guns 4 Milwaukee Works Milwaukee, WI 75mm cannon shells, tracked crawlers, stationary engines, gyroscopes for torpedoes 5 Total 24 This page from a edition of the Harvester News-Letter shows the dates when the plants won their first awards.
Of interest is that the General Office employees were awarded "E" pins. International Harvester was prolific in the number of products it built to help win World War Two. It was one of the largest suppliers of war goods and supplies to the U. US Army from Table 1: 28, trucks of various types and sizes as shown below.
These are total production numbers produced from by IH and include all military services and any civilian needs. Starting in , the US Army Corps of Engineers took over responsibility for the acceptances of construction type tractors. Therefore, the information for the US Army is incomplete.
Armament : 20mm aircraft cannons, 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun loading mechanisms, 37mm cannon shells, Bellevue springs for artillery recoil mechanisms, 57mm anti-tank guns, 75mm cannon shells, mm shell casings, Thunderbolt 20mm Oerlikon Quad gun mounts, 7 M7 tanks.
Another 20 unfinished were still on the production lines. The Congressional Record shows that production of the gun carriages was temporarily suspended due to a strike at its casting supplier in May I have not yet found a gun carriage built by International-Harvester.
At the same time I have found several by other manufacturers. International Harvester ranked 33rd in dollar value of World War Two production contracts. January 21, Army was the primary purchasing entity for vehicles for the U. Army during World War Two. However, there were other organizations that also purchased vehicles including the Army Corps of Engineers, U. Army Air Force, U. Marmon-Herrington converted 1, M to M specifications in Also there were H M vehicles accepted by Army Ordnance not shown produced by the Springfield plant.
It could be these were shown as Hs by Springfield in its accounting. The excess of those accepted may have ended up in the post-war civilian market. This may have been a prototype. There is no known documentation on what it could have been. The quantity of serial numbers is Four serial numbers are not included. These are , , , and This discrepancy may affect the final total of 9, units built or the proper order of serial numbers for the later built vehicles. It is unknown what is correct and what is incorrect.
Army during WWII. In the Army Corp of Engineers took over the responsibility of accepting construction type tractors.
Therefore, and have been blanked out for most of the tractors below. See more photos in the tractor section below. Author's photo added Army Ordnance realized the M7 had no significant improvements over the M4 Sherman tank, and production was halted. Temporary space was found in the building for the assembly of the M22 tank transmissions and differential assemblies.
Twenty persons working in a 10, square foot are began building the assemblies in April They were then shipped to the nearby Marmon-Herrington plant for installation into the tanks.
The contract was cancelled in after only 7 M7s had been completed. Another 20 were partially built on the assembly line.. The M9 was used on the 90mm anti-aircraft gun and was credited with being responsible for shooting down an large number of V-1 "Buzz Bombs" over southern England and Antwerp, Belgium.
St Paul Works St. Navy for the spring The first torpedo came off the IH assembly line in November The company also built the gyroscopes that helped direct the torpedoes to their target. Author's photo from the Air Force Museum. This was one of the most complicated and difficult weapons of World War Two to build, containing 5, individual parts and 1, assemblies. This warhead section of the torpedo would have the detonator and pounds of Torpex explosive.
Torpex was 1. This area would contain the alcohol fuel and compressed air to power the steam turbine. Author's photo. IH half tracks are not that prominent in the United States as they were given to our allies under Lend-Lease. This is the first and only one I have found in four years of searching. Author's Photo added The main external distinguishing feature between the IH half tracks, and those built by White, Autocar, and Diamond T, is the rounded sheet metal corners. The other companies had square corners.
This International Harvester has the original data plate still in it and is Serial Number It was restored and is owned by Chris Kurtz of St. George, MO. He has two more that he hopes to also restore providing he can find the necessary parts. The restoration is highly detailed with all of the data and information plates attached.
The M5 has an unusual seating arrangement for the driver and passengers. The driver sits in the middle front of the vehicle, and crew members sit along the side and the back. The crew members enter and exit out of the front on either side of the driver's station. This view is looking into the right side of the M5 from the front.
There are seat cushions for four soldiers along the right side of the vehicle. A partial seat can be seen along the rear row of seats. Another seat is in the center section behind the driver.
This view is looking in the left side of the drive'rs station. Not all the positions have cushions on this side along the left-hand side. There is also another seat across the back row and one behind the driver.
The M5 could carry an artillery crew of twelve persons plus the driver. The driver sits in the center and has padded arm rests on either side of his seat. It, with the rest of the collection, was sold when the museum found itself in financial straits. This is the only M5 I have found that has the tarp installed to protect the crew in foul weather. The photos of this M5 shall remain on the webpage for historical purposes.
Author's Photo. International-Harvester World War Two M5 High Speed Tractor Production Output Year-Month Total 9 3 23 60 99 5, Navistar International is an American truck manufacturer founded in Navistar is a shard and successor of International Harvester, a company founded in , which produced trucks under the International brand, which was ruined and sold in parts in The modern name was introduced in After the crisis of , in the wake of new military orders, the share price for rose 4-fold.
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