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Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2016

a couple interesting trucks in the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum



This is an Avery truck. The Avery Company of Peoria, IL offered their wood plug tire sometime around 1910 and it consisted of a hard rubber tire with holes around the perimeter mounted on a cast steel rim with 96 hard wood plugs driven into the holes. When the plugs wore down, the whole tire wasn’t replaced, just the plugs. Worked great on dirt roads.

Found on https://www.facebook.com/HagertyClassicCars/

Thursday, July 7, 2016

the Canton crane


part of a line of shop cranes made by the Hull Acme Company of Cleveland


http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2016/05/canton-crane.html

Sikorski S-39 amphib


powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp of 300-420 hp. It was intended as a utility-type aircraft and first flew on December 24 1929. Twenty one were built in the three year production run. The aircraft proved successful and versatile, being used for commercially as well as things like Africa exploration and even as a yacht tender. Several remain in museums, as well as one airworthy example at Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, Florida.

http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2016/06/sikorski-s-39.html