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High-Speed Prime Mover
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A M-5 high-speed prime mover carries men through a field. The original caption reads: "The M-5 high-speed prime mover, designed and engineered by International Harvester's Gas Power Engineering Department, at Chicago, for the Army, was put through a series of tests designed, according to a high Army official, 'to break the designer's heart'."
1943
International Harvester Company
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W012X5S
WHi 50679
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International M-5 High Speed Prime Mover
1943
Army personnel pulling a 155mm howitzer with a International M-5 High Speed Prime Mover during a test or demonstration. Original caption reads: "This high speed tractor, a new piece of equipment us...
International-Built M-5 Prime Mover
1943
M-5 prime mover built by International Harvester for the U.S. military.
M-5 Prime Mover
1945
Soldiers pulling 155mm howitzer with an M-5 tractor at Camp Adair, Oregon. The original caption reads: "This is the new M-5 tractor which replaces 2 and one-half ton trucks as the standard prime-m...
Tanks and Military Vehicles at Bettendorf Works
1942
U.S. military equipment lined up outside International Harvester's Bettendorf Works. Pictured left to right are a M-5 prime mover (1st design), a M-5 prime mover (last design), a M-5 tank, a tank r...
International ID-9 Tractor Designed for U.S. Army
April 20, 1941
Engineering photograph of an International ID-9 tractor designed for the U.S. Army under "contract no. 41-11169 (Ind-318)."
Soldiers with Truck and Airplane
1943
Uniformed soldiers use a ladder to unload objects from a U.S. Army C-47 airplane labeled "Green Goon." An International truck appears in the foreground with a panel of characters on the door.
