question Caption competition

[Great War truck]

 

(On a historical note this pile actually consists of 85,000 tires).

[Runflat]

"this one's flat... this one's flat... and this one..."

[Richard Farrant]

"There must be one for a Dennis, here somewhere"

[David B.]

"What about a silage pit ?" or "There must be one round here."

Edited June 6, 2010 by David B.

[David Ives]

ok i know the buy one get 100 free offer was good but they are all diffrent sizes:nut:

[Roy Larkin]

Ok, we've got the tyres, where's the rest of the lorry?

[Rick W]

BP was grasping at straws for practical ideas to stop the oil from reaching the beaches...

[Great War truck]

This will keep out those pesky huns.

[Runflat]

I'm getting tyred of this.

[Mk3iain]

Not "O"s,... I said hose...garden hose!!!!

 

(Remembering Ronnie Barker)

[diamond 981]

We purchased a job lot to beat the rise in infllation.

[antarmike]

Explosion at the "Michelin Man" factory kills hundreds, but search continues for survivors....

Edited June 6, 2010 by antarmike

[Tony B]

Treading new ground with this one.

[robin craig]

Their tireless efforts resolve a surrounding problem

 

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[robin craig]

How "tread lightly" started. . .

 

R

[robin craig]

'Cor blimey its airless around 'ere

 

R

[robin craig]

Le Regiment De Transport des rouleau sans air

 

R

[N.O.S.]

Not a caption, but just to say I'm amazed there would have been such demand for replacement tyres (assuming this is a WW1 supply dump scene) - surely being solid rubber they would last a long time in the relatively soft ground conditions?

 

My 200T water press was obtained after the Great War, no doubt secondhand by my great grandfather specifically for pressing these tyres off and on. I wouldn't have thought that in civvy street they'd wear very quickly either. Can you enlighten us any further on this?

[cpltomo]

The prototype polo mint was not a great success as they thought.

[Great War truck]

My 200T water press was obtained after the Great War, no doubt secondhand by my great grandfather specifically for pressing these tyres off and on.

 

You have an ex WD 200T water press!!!!! Photo, photo, photo, photo (please).

[Great War truck]

The majority of the US trucks would need six tyres each. The mileage you could expect from a set is in the thousands, certainly not more than 10,000. High speeds and bad roads would reduce this figure further. At the end of the war the US had exported over 40,000 heavy trucks to France, so if they all needed new tyres at the same time that would be 360,000.

 

As you can work out they could get through 85,000 tyres very quickly. I am just trying to find out where this photo was taken, but i think it was at the main truck repair/reconstruction depot just South of Paris.

 

I have just written an article for MMI on this depot (having found a great big bundle of original photos), and hopefully it will come out in the September issue.

[alan turner (RIP)]

If we can hoop la all the huns out there the war will be over in a month!

[79x100]

"Hey Pal, who is this Mademoiselle of Armytires anyway ?"

[Great War truck]

"Hey Pal, who is this Mademoiselle of Armytires anyway ?"

 

Ooooooh, that is awful.

[N.O.S.]

40,000 trucks? I had no idea of the scale of mechanisation.

 

Water press - no evidence of it being W.D., but must be pretty old. Was installed in the garage immediately after WW1, and would certainly not have been new! When I said 'these tyres' I meant tyres just like that on steam wagons and no doubt ex-WD trucks then in civvy use. Will get a pic anyway.