Got one of these parked in your garage?
Pretty stylish, huh?
It's actually exceedingly useful. I know what it does but I'd love to hear your guesses.
Pretty stylish, huh?
It's actually exceedingly useful. I know what it does but I'd love to hear your guesses.
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I was going to be facetious and say early forklift with pole attachment for moving rolls of carpet, but could it also be first attempt at mobile bomb detonator, or a way to refuel vehicles/airplanes? (Ya know, put the barrel of fuel on the little platform, run a hose...nah, that won't work, either.)
Close, but no cigar. And I'm not saying which guess was close. Hee hee.
Never mind that we know what is does, check out that solid beam & transverse leaf spring front suspension set-up.
It must turn in like an ocean liner.
Love the early attempt at an F1 style front wing too.
There are two more competitions here; What has the guy in the blue sweater behind the fence got in his lunch box and what is the gentleman with the flat cap getting out of his bag?
Ok, I see the thingy on the end that looks as though it's meant to hold something, like an adj wrench. Then I see the link chain meant to turn the whole shaft. Hmm, does it help take off airplane propellers?
I'm just making all this up as I go, of course.
You're too good at this, Phil. You should give up having a life and start up your blog again.
That's just about as close as anyone's going to get, Speedway. You get today's Smart Cookie Award. It's actually for starting the engines of planes like the Sally B. Before electric ignition those things were too large to crank by hand so this cute little doohickey came out to play.
Yay you!
That was a retro-fit Dive. Actually the French designed this in their first attempt at digging "The Chunnel." Back to the drawing board for the French. The crafty Brits refitted it and the rest is history.
Hee hee, Mark. Your mind works in mysterious yet wonderful ways.
I was going to say some kind of hoist and/or rotor, but hadn't connected it to starting old planes.
The vehicle looks very similar to a 1940s-era Ford tractor. I had the "privilege" of operating one years ago when I was a teen. Nothing automatic or easy on that one!
Ms.M that is so cool! Vintage tractors are great fun. By sheer coincidence I've got one lined up for tomorrow's post.
Mark, given the narrow diameter of the first Chunnel tunneling tool, do you think think they meant to send an amphibian team, a group of stealth frogs, to reconniter?
Hee hee hee!
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