THE CLARKTOR 6

Even before America entered WWII as a belligerent nation, the country’s vast industrial capacity was gearing itself to supplying weapons and vehicles to the armed forces in the re-armament program.

One of the companies producing specialist vehicles for the armed forces was the Battle Creek-based Clark Tructractor Plant in Michigan, founded in 1919 as a division of the Clark Equipment Company, itself founded in 1916. The company had an established reputation as a manufacturer producing specialist machinery and vehicles to handle heavy cargo loads.

One of these vehicles was the “Tructractor,” used to move aircraft around airfields and other locations such as maintenance hangars. Eventually this small, but extremely useful specialist vehicle would