The Worlds First Caterpillar Track (1908), BFI

The World s First Caterpillar Track (1908), BFI. Subscribe: (The only surviving materials of this title feature German intertitles). Watch more on the BFI Player: Mud has defeated many a conquering army. In the days of horsedrawn transport or ponderous and hugely heavy steampowered engines, R. Hornsby and Sons nippy little petroldriven caterpillar track must have seemed like the technological development of the century.