Nice picture of a classic motor. By ‘traditional style of hazard lamps’ did they mean those oil fired ones on the ground? Takes me back to the late 60s I suppose it was when I was still living with Mum and Dad. I had bought my 1939 Packard and, although it was in beautiful condition and must have taken him back to his own youth, Dad wouldn’t allow me to park it in the drive.
Next door but one was a row of shops, set back from the main road with a divider between it and the shops’ parking, so I parked it there over night. One day a copper knocked on the door and said it was illegal as the parking was part of the highway and it must be lit at nights. Not wanting to knacker the battery, it had a Perkins P6 to crank up in the mornings, I went out and bought 3 of thos little oil lamps and 3 chains and padlocks. 2 were chained to the bumpers fore and aft and the 3rd to a door handle. The police inspected and pronounced it ‘satisfactory’.
Seems strange nowadays with parking all over everywhere with no lights on but I remember a time when we used to remove all the bulbs out of one side of our wagons to conserve battery power when parked outside digs for the night. I fell fowl of that one night in Chiswick though. I had a 2 pedal Beaver for Bunny Hill Motors and a 39 foot trailer. Whenever in London I parked in a back street and stayed with a bunch of Aussie mates who rented a house nearby. One night when walking back from the pub we passed a big space on the road where my wagon had been parked, it was gone. Phoned the police who arrived to investigate only to find that one of their own had driven it way to the pound for having no lights. I had to pay a fine and a pound fee to get it back and they made me reverse it all around blindside between the other vehicles to get it out rather than open the 2nd gate for me.
Nice picture of a classic motor. By ‘traditional style of hazard lamps’ did they mean those oil fired ones on the ground? Takes me back to the late 60s I suppose it was when I was still living with Mum and Dad. I had bought my 1939 Packard and, although it was in beautiful condition and must have taken him back to his own youth, Dad wouldn’t allow me to park it in the drive.
Next door but one was a row of shops, set back from the main road with a divider between it and the shops’ parking, so I parked it there over night. One day a copper knocked on the door and said it was illegal as the parking was part of the highway and it must be lit at nights. Not wanting to knacker the battery, it had a Perkins P6 to crank up in the mornings, I went out and bought 3 of thos little oil lamps and 3 chains and padlocks. 2 were chained to the bumpers fore and aft and the 3rd to a door handle. The police inspected and pronounced it ‘satisfactory’.
Seems strange nowadays with parking all over everywhere with no lights on but I remember a time when we used to remove all the bulbs out of one side of our wagons to conserve battery power when parked outside digs for the night. I fell fowl of that one night in Chiswick though. I had a 2 pedal Beaver for Bunny Hill Motors and a 39 foot trailer. Whenever in London I parked in a back street and stayed with a bunch of Aussie mates who rented a house nearby. One night when walking back from the pub we passed a big space on the road where my wagon had been parked, it was gone. Phoned the police who arrived to investigate only to find that one of their own had driven it way to the pound for having no lights. I had to pay a fine and a pound fee to get it back and they made me reverse it all around blindside between the other vehicles to get it out rather than open the 2nd gate for me.
jsutherland:
Gulf Haulage Heavy Lift Co. (GHHL) based in Saudi Arabia. More pictures can be viewed here: | Gallery
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Isn’t that a bit of overkill with so many wheels for something that, while admittedly very long, would not be all that heavy, would it? No idea really, just a thought.
jsutherland:
Gulf Haulage Heavy Lift Co. (GHHL) based in Saudi Arabia. More pictures can be viewed here: https://ghhl.net/gallery/
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Isn’t that a bit of overkill with so many wheels for something that, while admittedly very long, would not be all that heavy, would it? No idea really, just a thought.
Wind turbine blade?
“For a 1.5-MW turbine, typical blades should measure 110 ft to 124 ft (34m to 38m) in length, weigh 11,500 lb/5,216 kg and cost roughly $100,000 to $125,000 each. Rated at 3.0 MW, a turbine’s blades are about 155 ft/47m in length, weigh about 27,000 lb/12,474 kg and are valued at roughly $250,000 to $300,000 each.”
from: compositesworld.com/article … ing-bigger
That is an older article and goes to 3Mw.
Current OFF shore plants go to 13Mw in the North Sea. Projects go to 22Mw.
ON shore the largest seems to be Enercon E 216 with a rotor dia of 126m, so blade length of about 60m? So, maybe the longest onshore blade would be 20 or 30 Tons?
jsutherland:
Gulf Haulage Heavy Lift Co. (GHHL) based in Saudi Arabia. More pictures can be viewed here: https://ghhl.net/gallery/
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Isn’t that a bit of overkill with so many wheels for something that, while admittedly very long, would not be all that heavy, would it? No idea really, just a thought.
Franglais:
Agree it does seem like an awful lot of wheels.
Especially if you are a driver of the old school and have to change punctured wheels yourself.
I remember a backload of my own after delivering a heavy object to London docks with a multi-wheeled trailer, it was a large round tank which weighed little but was wide and so Bedfordshire police insisted on an ■■■■■■ (in the days before private escorts) from Toddington servcies till I left their county. But nobody else until my final destination in Ellesmere Port .
There were several of us waiting and, when the police arrived it must have been getting on for tea time, because the first thing they asked was ‘how fast can you go’. They were very crestfallen when I told them 50 mph and pleaded ‘surely you can go faster than that’, this in the days far before limiters and more or less before limits.
I became very jobsworth and said ‘every one of those little wheels has a tyre which says max 50 mph on it, and if you are prepared to crawl underneath to change one of the middle ones, I can go as fast as you like.’
We proceeded at a stately pace till we got past Newport Pagnell where they suddenly disappeared at a very high speed.
Partly answer (or not) my own question:
“This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a…
This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a “chain track” was fitted to a Hornsby oil tractor built in 1896. Several other Hornsby oil powered tractors were completed with crawler tracks, but despite energetic promotion, including the first film ever made for commercial purposes (1908), and demonstrations for high-ranking military personnel, the idea did not catch on. This machine was originally sold to the Northern Light Power & Coal Company for hauling coal to Klondike gold fields in the Yukon. After this lone sale, the Hornsby company became disillusioned and sold the patent rights of the “chain track” to the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1914. Holt later combined with Best to become the Caterpillar Tractor Company. This was the only steam powered machine built and is the only steam crawler existing today.” drdsteam.tumblr.com/post/299733 … -in-canada
So, an unique Hornsby steam crawler sent to Canada, and with the design taken over by a company that later became Caterpillar…I wonder what happened to them?
Franglais:
Partly answer (or not) my own question:
“This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a…
This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a “chain track” was fitted to a Hornsby oil tractor built in 1896. Several other Hornsby oil powered tractors were completed with crawler tracks, but despite energetic promotion, including the first film ever made for commercial purposes (1908), and demonstrations for high-ranking military personnel, the idea did not catch on. This machine was originally sold to the Northern Light Power & Coal Company for hauling coal to Klondike gold fields in the Yukon. After this lone sale, the Hornsby company became disillusioned and sold the patent rights of the “chain track” to the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1914. Holt later combined with Best to become the Caterpillar Tractor Company. This was the only steam powered machine built and is the only steam crawler existing today.” drdsteam.tumblr.com/post/299733 … -in-canada
So, an unique Hornsby steam crawler sent to Canada, and with the design taken over by a company that later became Caterpillar…I wonder what happened to them?
Apparently there is one in the tank museum in Bovington, Dorset, it was tested by the war office in 1907 and ordered in 1909. They made several some powered by a 2cyl Ackroyd heavy oil engine of 80hp and it weighed 8.5ton and was driven to delivery at 7.5mph, Buzzer
Franglais:
Partly answer (or not) my own question:
“This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a…
This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a “chain track” was fitted to a Hornsby oil tractor built in 1896. Several other Hornsby oil powered tractors were completed with crawler tracks, but despite energetic promotion, including the first film ever made for commercial purposes (1908), and demonstrations for high-ranking military personnel, the idea did not catch on. This machine was originally sold to the Northern Light Power & Coal Company for hauling coal to Klondike gold fields in the Yukon. After this lone sale, the Hornsby company became disillusioned and sold the patent rights of the “chain track” to the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1914. Holt later combined with Best to become the Caterpillar Tractor Company. This was the only steam powered machine built and is the only steam crawler existing today.” drdsteam.tumblr.com/post/299733 … -in-canada
So, an unique Hornsby steam crawler sent to Canada, and with the design taken over by a company that later became Caterpillar…I wonder what happened to them?
Apparently there is one in the tank museum in Bovington, Dorset, it was tested by the war office in 1907 and ordered in 1909. They made several some powered by a 2cyl Ackroyd heavy oil engine of 80hp and it weighed 8.5ton and was driven to delivery at 7.5mph, Buzzer
Franglais:
Partly answer (or not) my own question:
“This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a…
This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a “chain track” was fitted to a Hornsby oil tractor built in 1896. Several other Hornsby oil powered tractors were completed with crawler tracks, but despite energetic promotion, including the first film ever made for commercial purposes (1908), and demonstrations for high-ranking military personnel, the idea did not catch on. This machine was originally sold to the Northern Light Power & Coal Company for hauling coal to Klondike gold fields in the Yukon. After this lone sale, the Hornsby company became disillusioned and sold the patent rights of the “chain track” to the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1914. Holt later combined with Best to become the Caterpillar Tractor Company. This was the only steam powered machine built and is the only steam crawler existing today.” drdsteam.tumblr.com/post/299733 … -in-canada
So, an unique Hornsby steam crawler sent to Canada, and with the design taken over by a company that later became Caterpillar…I wonder what happened to them?
Apparently there is one in the tank museum in Bovington, Dorset, it was tested by the war office in 1907 and ordered in 1909. They made several some powered by a 2cyl Ackroyd heavy oil engine of 80hp and it weighed 8.5ton and was driven to delivery at 7.5mph, Buzzer
Thanks. I stand corrected.
Apparently there were several built with different power plants but Hornsby patented the track system and your story of going overseas is almost certainly right and then caterpillar bought the patent and the rest is history as they say, the name caterpillar was what the army troops nicknamed it as it was a same action as the critter, Buzzer
Franglais:
Partly answer (or not) my own question:
“This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a…
This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a “chain track” was fitted to a Hornsby oil tractor built in 1896. Several other Hornsby oil powered tractors were completed with crawler tracks, but despite energetic promotion, including the first film ever made for commercial purposes (1908), and demonstrations for high-ranking military personnel, the idea did not catch on. This machine was originally sold to the Northern Light Power & Coal Company for hauling coal to Klondike gold fields in the Yukon. After this lone sale, the Hornsby company became disillusioned and sold the patent rights of the “chain track” to the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1914. Holt later combined with Best to become the Caterpillar Tractor Company. This was the only steam powered machine built and is the only steam crawler existing today.” drdsteam.tumblr.com/post/299733 … -in-canada
So, an unique Hornsby steam crawler sent to Canada, and with the design taken over by a company that later became Caterpillar…I wonder what happened to them?
In 1918 Richard Hornsby merged Ruston to form Ruston Hornsby Ltd,I have one of their petrol powered stationary engines 1.5 HP dated 1956.
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