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The last photo with that large section of rubber missing from the wheel it must have produced quite a lurching ride at the end !:drive::shake: Cant make out the speed painted on the frame :coffee:

A handy item on the airfield for lifting bombs in the bomb dumps and in the supply depots to shift crates etc.from the Life Magazine site caption:Side view of 1-ton tractor crane. Location: US Date taken: 1941 Photographer: George Strock caption:Close-up of 1-ton crane tractor. Location: US Date taken: 1941 Photographer: George Strock

What was the thinking about using multiple small propellors and not fewer larger ones ? example using three instead of 9, was this do to rpm of the shafts and vibration? .And why have the stern most shaft so long would seem it would fowl the rudder ?

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your answer from wikipedia on Pinnace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnace

Great photo's on the link's antarmike. Sorry if the title was wrong I went by the caption , took the easy way :n00b::writing:

Thank You Joris , for the photo's and details . The monuments look well taken care of .

Thank You pop larkin , All the different needs of an Army on the move taken care of . While a number of these different work shop vehicles have been saved it would really be something if some of the workshops could be recreated , I m sure the many of the machines and tools would have been used up long ago either by the military or if they got into civilian hands , It would be something different to see beyond dump trucks and cargo trucks .

Well done Adrian , Yes they are exactly that . the nomenclature for them is "linking and delinking machine.cal.50 M7" To operate is very simple you would line up the metal links near the front edge of the unit and up to 10 .50 cal. rounds behind them then push the large tubular handle towards the links and there you go just repeat to make belts of ammo. To delink you put the belt onto the front of the machine drop a metal bar into the rims of the cartridges and pull up on the large tubular handle and the rounds are removed from the links. Those posts and delinking bars have already been removed by the P.O.W.'s. The M7's were painted black, but these appear to be O.D.? and had a small table they were mounted on or so I have been told.

A training film on setting up and camouflage of a bivouac area in WWII , CCKW's ,Dodges ,Jeeps,White Scout cars. narrated by Lowell Thomas Something went wrong...

Unknown perhaps is was a case of what stock was available at the time to move the tanks with , and it was possible due to the size of the tanks

Found this link thru the WWII Dodge forum has a bit of everything take a peek http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27650485#27650485

So quick to scrap these items , not they are going straight from shipping crate to being disassembled for the scrap metal by P.O.W.'s. I m sure a number of people on the Forum can identify these These units were used by every branch of the U.S. Military during WWII and I m sure in Korea and Viet Nam perhaps some are still being used today . Caption :Prisoners of war taking apart equipment for salvaging. Location: Tooele, UT, US Date taken: March 27, 1946 Photographer: Charles E. Steinheimer any one know what its nomanclature was ?

I bet its in plan sight like the gauge or even the handpump

Export of Stuart M-5 Tanks at a VERY good price , Wonder if any of them survived their military service and avoided the scrap man ? Caption: Surplus American M-5 Stuart light tanks being loaded for shipment to China after being purchased for $1,000 each by Chinese Nationalist forces who are battling the communist Red Army. Location: Philadelphia, PA, US Date taken: 1950 Photographer: Thomas D. Mcavoy

From time to time there have been postings of the exteriors and a few more photo's of the gutted interiors of these types of vehicles, I thought I'd start a thread of period photo's of them in use . Here's what I found on the Life magazine site I hope others will add on . Does any one have a list of how many and what types these work shops were made? Caption : Air Artillery, Italy 79th Ordnance Co. soldier repairing Army watches in his truck bed workship at field depot, in the Cassino corridor of battle. Location: Italy Date taken: February 1944 Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

photo of typical bulldozer used by military from the life Magazine site caption :Close-up of bull-dozer tractor. Location: US Date taken: 1941 Photographer: George Strock

Driver training state side note blue drab markings Caption:Army truck driving through deep mud. Location: US Date taken: 1942 Photographer: George Strock

A few of the other kind of Jeeps the Amphibious type Quite a number Caption : Camp Pickett/Usaf Equipment En Masse Hundred of 1/4-ton amphibous trucks ("seeps" or "ducks") lined up for shipment overseas to the front, in huge lot at Army Service Forces assembly depot at Camp Pickett. Location: VA, US Date taken: 1943 Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

the original caption for the photo of scrap brass 18,000,000 pounds of scrap brass piled up at a US Army depot storing unused equipment. Location: Tooele, UT, US Date taken: March 27, 1946 Photographer: Charles E. Steinheimer

Willyslanc has hit the nail on the head as they say. I think he peek at the Life mag site :shocked: Still a mind boggling amount of material , The total use of brass for all military uses must have been a Huge amount !!! (Dont ask me I dont know the figure.)

thanks for the link , Yes lots of good photo's shame there is no sound . I ll keep an eye out for his next run in my area , he says hes already traveled 7,239 miles in 2009 already !

I think pre-war and early World War II the American data plates were brass and late war they were zinc ,Here's a reason brass might have been scarce late in the war just one of countless scrape metal dumps, From The Life magazine site . any one want to hazard a guess as to the weight of all this ? answer will be given after the tenth guess

I'm guessing the engine is a Wisconsin, but will await correction

sounds like a skippy moment , Glad you were not seriously hurt .