06/17/2026
The Museum’s current exhibition, Making Tracks: Crawlers, Tractors & Snowmobiles, explores the stories behind each of the tracked vehicles on display.
One of these tracked vehicles is this 1946 John Deere Lindeman.
The Lindeman Power Equipment Company designed and manufactured specialized orchard equipment. In 1939, Deere & Company made a deal with the Lindeman Power Equipment Co. to adapt their Model B wheeled tractors to crawlers.
Deere & Company built the chassis including the engine and transmission.
They then shipped them to Yakima, Washington, US where Lindeman attached the undercarriage and tracks. Finished models carried both the John Deere and Lindeman names.
The design was moderately successful, and nearly 1,600 John Deere Lindeman crawlers were built and sold between 1939 and 1947. John Deere bought out the Lindeman Power Equipment Company in 1947.
This 1946 John Deere Lindeman was used in the lumber industry in British Columbia.
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