Joris Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Great picture: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woa2 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 er... That's a B25. A B24 had 4 engines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Great photo...:cheesy: ....at one of my jobs many years ago I worked at a big old outfit that dealt in all manner of secondhand materials and machinery . They'd been established since the 1930s and through the late 40s and 50s had made a handsome living out of a lot of ex military kit ... lorries , excavators , generators and such... they had 2 very similar ex aircraft tugs as 'yard tractors' along with some other really interesting stuff...These little tugs were used to shift stuff on a selection of ex-RAF bomb trailers/trollies that had been modified for their purposes... ..One of the drivers of these tugs was an ex army fella and I used to watch him with awe as he could back up the ex RAF draw bar trailers with more ease than most folk could back up a wheelbarrow. At that stage I'd already done a year or so on a farm and was very well versed in how hard a draw bar trailer is to reverse having once got into a right proper mess with a huge hay trailer 'stuck' in an awkward corner of the farm with the drawbar all tangled up under the back wheels of my tractor... Unfortunately many years later the Grandson of the old man was now running the show and he had a big clear up in the early 90s and the 2 tugs were cut for scrap along with all their trailers and also 2 massive Jones yard cranes that had come from an admiralty dockyard somewhere ......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 er... That's a B25. A B24 had 4 engines. Ooops :red: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
river6 Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 It's a Clark tow tractor. Standard issue to USAAF/ USAF bases for aircraft movement. Fantastic traction and a great load lugger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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