Speaking of towing heavy loads...

[ezcurra]

Here is an interesting picture, taken 90 years ago. Towing 35 tons with 30HP. I would LOVE to see this in motion.



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[Gary - K7GLD]

HEY - that's the tank outta Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade!

 

[Kennywould]

The motiom might put you to sleep!

 

[rbattelle]

WOW, Pickfords still exists! They're over 400 years old! Link to their website.

Ryan

 

[PToombs]

Cool old truck, wish I had one! :{



Ryan, you need to get out more! :-laf

 

[nickleinonen]

Ryan, you need to get out more! :-laf

someone has to keep the internet occupied :-laf #4 top active poster on the tdr. .



i'm down at #16 or so. . and i do need to get out more often

 

[MMeier]

Here is an interesting picture, taken 90 years ago. Towing 35 tons with 30HP. I would LOVE to see this in motion.



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Ummm... you didn't take that picture by chance now, did you?:-laf Anyone know if DOT was around back then?

 

[rbattelle]

Ryan, you need to get out more! :-laf

That might be true. I'm not very social. I prefer the company of machines to that of people! :-laf



Bah! I found the Pickford site with a simple search on "Pickfords" at Google. First result.



Ryan

 

[Boondocker]

Do you think that's a belt drive to the rear wheel? Must be some serious gear reduction to move that load with 30HP!

 

[Bill Lins]

More likely it's a chain drive- many trucks of that era used chains.

 

[BMH95]

Here come the weight police . . .

 

[MEby]

someone has to keep the internet occupied :-laf #4 top active poster on the tdr. .



i'm down at #16 or so. . and i do need to get out more often

how do you know he's #4?

 

[nickleinonen]

how do you know he's #4?

because i need to get out more often. . :-laf



[or look at the member list sorted by post count]

 

[PToombs]

MAAAAN! I'm #192 :{ I wish I didn't have a life!:-laf



You can see the chain in the picture.

 

[MEby]

I'm # 1959... guess i'm still a newbie:-laf

 

[jwgary]

You can see the chain in the picture.

I think that might be the forward link for the leaf springs. I could be mistaken though.

 

[Rebel Ram]

Thats a chain for sure. Mack trucks had chain drive like that. Can anyone identify what brand of truck that is? Oh BTW I'm in the top twenty... .....

Pages that is.

 

[DJW]

I believe it's a Thormycroft, Chain drive for sure. I also saw a steam driven truck in 1940 on a construction site, it was a road model. Inside cab with bright work and gauges pure Art a Picture, chain drive, as was probably all the heavy trucks earlier trucks.

 

[DJW]

That truck could also be a Scamell (not sure of spelling. ) It's not unusual on British roads to see loads around 300 tons, generally electrical generator (dynamo) parts for electrical generation plants.

 

[ezcurra]

Some more tank transport pictures:



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