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Digging through looking for Garand images always yields some odd military photos
Above is the G E Beatle used to handle nuclear material.
Makes me think of Star Wars
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Gawd work safe would have a field day there ~ no harnesses or lanyards, not hooked up, no hard hats, working at heights, no guard rails, no area control, no barricading with information tags on it, lastly no ones wearing their hi-viz gear. Poor hygiene with the food handling no gloves on the claw, food incorrectly stored in direct sunlight...............
Is that a Pontiac in the background at 3:00 o'clock looks familiar as we had a 1960's Pontiac Laurentian with a 283 CI needed a phone to talk to your passenger the bench seats were so wide!
What a weird machine Mark
Cinders, might be a 1960 Buick ?
Robert
Looks like an m113 chassis...
Ahh, yes. Back in the days when common sense was more common than drug use in employees. When I went to work in the refinery, all that stuff was "optional". Now you're automagically fired for failing to comply...Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
Russ
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Originally Posted by browningautorifle
It looks like a tank because the chassis is reworked from an Army M42 40-mm. gun carrier. A 500-hp supercharged Continental six speeds it along roads at 10 m.p.h., but there's also an electrical drive by which it creeps 15 feet per minute. It could wrench the concrete all off a test cell without grunting hard–drawbar pull is 85,000 pounds.
The cab, however, is nothing like a tank turret. It not only turns around and around, but moves up and down 15 feet on four stainless-steel legs (built like hydraulic auto lifts). These movements are precise but slow, for that cab weighs 50 tons.
The walls are made of foot-thick lead covered inside and out with half inch steel plates. The entrance hatch is a tight-fitting cork of lead directly over the operator's head. It alone weighs 7 1/2 tons.
The hatch offers the only way in or out.
I'm thinking 1957 Ford wagon in the first picture and 1960 Pontiac Catalina in the lower picture. Is that an open carton of eggs in the top picture? That would take some seriously delicate controls to pick up an egg with that machine. Tom
As you see he has one in...er...hand.Quote:
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I gather Mark given the machines weight it was never considered for aquatic operations!
Safe bet!Quote:
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It was designed for an atomic powered air craft, so who knows what they dreamed up back then
Well I must admit I have never heard of the atomic powered aircraft that is real fanciful stuff just what the world needs flying atomic reactors!
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Wow, if the Enterprise had had that on board, Spock would not have had to die....
As a child of the 50's I vividly remember the two opposing views of atomic energy. On one hand we were drilled in school how to hide under our desks to be safe from atomic attack. (I early decided that this was a farce after reading a Mad Magazine that parodied the posters: "In case of attack bend over, put your head between your legs and kiss your *** goodbye"), and articles and news stories touting atomic powered everything including airplanes.
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Another example of the changes in our society. The PC police have this website censoring words that were published in a magazine in the '50's.Quote:
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I grew up one ridge over from Oak Rdge, TN, the U.S. capital of nuclear energy and nuclear material weaponization. There were obsolescent nuclear reactors displayed on the street corners in that city. Not a joke. It was a first strike soviet nuclear target throughout the cold war. Oak Ridge had an interceptor squadron parked on the airfield a mile away from me that defended it throughout the fifties and sixties. I had an uncle who was a nuclear chemist on the Manhattan project, friends who worked in the labs and plants. I knew how to operate a remote articulator (mechanical arm) before I got into junior high. They didn't even bother teaching us the nuclear survival drills. Too close. :madsmile:
Bob
A crazy time for sure. Lots of stuff said and done by the government that made absolutely no sense. In Mpls-St. Paul, as all cities, there were evacuation route signs on main roads. In case of an attack warning we were supposed to evacuate the city in cars. Now we have all seen the clogged roads when people try to leave a coastal area when a hurricane comes. One of my college classmates in St Paul, calculated that the center of the Twin Cities was the Ford bridge over the Mississippi, his plan was to walk there and sit on it until the bomb went off. One of these plans did save a bunch of lives in a suburb. There is a subdivision that was built where each house had a fallout shelter. A tornado hit it with no loss of life because the residents had gone to the shelters.Quote:
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