Off Topic Picture - 1962

[Mark in Rochester]

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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[CINDERS]

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

[RCS]

Cinders, might be a 1960 Buick ?

Robert

[RASelkirk]

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

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...

Russ

[browningautorifle]

Looks like an m113 chassis...

[Mark in Rochester]

Looks like an m113 chassis...

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.

[oldpaul]

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

[browningautorifle]

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.

[CINDERS]

I gather Mark given the machines weight it was never considered for aquatic operations!

[Mark in Rochester]

I gather Mark given the machines weight it was never considered for aquatic operations!

Safe bet!

It was designed for an atomic powered air craft, so who knows what they dreamed up back then