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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This late 1940s color promotional film for Allis-Chalmers provides a look at the industrial machinery company’s latest HD5 model crawler tractor, using demonstrations from around the country to show its versatility in a variety of agricultural, logging, and construction applications (TRT 16:26). Opening titles: “Seeing is Believing, presented by Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division” (0:08). An excavator dumps dirt into a pickup truck. A continuous track vehicle pushes logs uphill. The Model HD5 is introduced, moving snow, soil, and lime (0:28). Plowing through a heavy snowfall in a rural field (1:19). The base model HD5 tractor is displayed on a rotating base. Half of the engine is exposed, revealing its inner workings (1:30). Closeup on the tractor’s diesel engine (1:42). Closeup on a piston moving up and down. The clutch assembly in a cutaway (2:02). The transmission,
