Old Tractor Breda 75 - Looking For Information

I'm not familiar with Breda personally, I don't think it is a brand found in the US, but I believe those are what is known as artillery tractors....used in WWII to move heavy artillery guns and other heavy equipment. I haven't seen anything civilian tractor from that era with tracks.

I think you will find more information looking at it from a military perspective. A quick google search again didn't yield much, but someone was mentioning Breda being Italian?

Yes Thomas, you are right it is Italian and around here there was a lot of activity during the war, several books have been written about it. We are right on the Trasimene Line which was a German defensive line (1944 I think) during the Italy Campaign. So it makes sense that it could be an artillery tractor.

Actually Thomas, tracked tractors were competing with wheeled tractors for agricultural purposes before WWII quite heavily. Cletrac was one of the bigger ones. http://cletrac.org/ I don't believe I've ever heard of a Breda though.

David out here on the plains in practical use you hardly see them....lots of steel wheeled tractors, very few tracks, if any.

Yep, they definitely lost the marketing battle to the wheeled tractors. I've seen one vintage tracked agricultural tractor here, all the rest I've seen have been for the construction market.

Here in Iowa tracked John Deere and haul wagons are becoming quite popular now, they can go through wetter conditions and less apt to get stuck.

Bumping this as it was rapidly disappearing into the thread 'black hole'. I am off to bed (Italy 10.15pm here) but I would really appreciate any inputs anyone can make on this. Night guys!

Maybe this link will help (if it works)

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18173527

edit :- seems like it's from the 1950's and not the 2nd WW

That is awesome Andy, and it was agricultural it looks like. Neat stuff!

Hi Dorothy - there is a little bit of info on this pdf I found: www.ausgrain.com.au/.../182gp40classictractors.pdf .
Also you may be able to contact someone on here who can give you some info: http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/tractorparts/breda_two_stroke.htm
Good luck :-)
Helen

...found a shot online, but the link goes to a different inage, so deleted it.

And if you can read Italian, which I can't, try this.

http://www.tractorum.it/forum/showthread.php?t=7716

I think it is probably an updated and more powerful version of the Breda 50 which was around during the second world war.

Good morning and thanks so much for your input everyone and the additional info Andy and Jane. Andy you have been digging in the same places as me, I mention the Australian advert in my write up (but I put 1930 instead of 1950 dohhh!). I can read Italian and I have been on that forum - they are discussing where you can find ones for sale and how much they go for. Interesting that they seem to go for quite a lot of money and this one is on display on the edge of a field. I must try and find out what the local history for it is. I have enough for my write up anyway so thanks everyone. I will leave this thread open a bit longer in case anyone else has anything to add.