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David Brown Taskmaster
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The David Brown Tractor Club Ltd.
www.dbtc.co.uk/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic...
Joined: 03.01.2007
Devon
Posts: 5068
Location: Devon
Status: Offline
The taskmaster was a heavy duty towing tractor that was used for mainly towing aircraft. Built up using a David Brown tractor skid unit. Initially designed for use on military airfields during WW11 and later on civillian airports. Some were fitted with winches for recovery purposes. Later versions were built by the Douglas Company which is near Bristol but this company stopped using D.B. skid units in 1974. They still build these type of 'movers' for various aplications. There was one variant of the Taskmaster in the 1950's that was fitted with a front mounted belt pulley unit that was used for powering threshing machines and was called a 'Thresherman'. The Taskmasters inception came about from the close relasionship thad Sir David Brown had with the then War Minister, Lord Beaverbrook. They were very close freinds and Beaverbrook asked Brown if he could come up with a design of a heavy towing tractor for the purpose of towing and recovering aircraft. Brown being very clever came up with a design based around the agricultural tractor and Beaverbrook aproved it. The rest, as they say, is history. If I've missed anything out others will add it I'm sure.
David Brown Taskmaster
Info taken from Website of:
The David Brown Tractor Club Ltd.
www.dbtc.co.uk/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic...
Joined: 03.01.2007
Devon
Posts: 5068
Location: Devon
Status: Offline
The taskmaster was a heavy duty towing tractor that was used for mainly towing aircraft. Built up using a David Brown tractor skid unit. Initially designed for use on military airfields during WW11 and later on civillian airports. Some were fitted with winches for recovery purposes. Later versions were built by the Douglas Company which is near Bristol but this company stopped using D.B. skid units in 1974. They still build these type of 'movers' for various aplications. There was one variant of the Taskmaster in the 1950's that was fitted with a front mounted belt pulley unit that was used for powering threshing machines and was called a 'Thresherman'. The Taskmasters inception came about from the close relasionship thad Sir David Brown had with the then War Minister, Lord Beaverbrook. They were very close freinds and Beaverbrook asked Brown if he could come up with a design of a heavy towing tractor for the purpose of towing and recovering aircraft. Brown being very clever came up with a design based around the agricultural tractor and Beaverbrook aproved it. The rest, as they say, is history. If I've missed anything out others will add it I'm sure.