1944 steam-powered artillery tractor - photo

[Altair]

1944 steam-powered artillery tractor.




Previously:

Hornsby Mammoth steam tractor crawler
First Caterpillar tractor - steam-powered
Steam yarders - videos
Steam traction engine-powered sawmill - GIFs
1901 steam-powered lawn mower in action
steam-powered tanks

[DIYSwede]

Ah yes - The Skoda-Sentinel SK13...
Developed in late 1944, as fuel was getting more scarce by the minute for the Germans- factory tested in Jan 1945.
No success there either, in spite of it running on just about anything that burned: coal, coke, wood etc.
Weighing 20 metric tons, pulling 9,5 (excluding coal & water supplies) at max 9 mph, range 150 km (sic!), 3-person crew,
propelled by 2 lorry steam motors (under license from Sentinel Wagon Works, Shrewsbury, built by Škoda Plzeň during the twenties).

https://www.valka.cz/Skoda-SK-13-SK-23-SK-33-t79671