Tanklike Tractor Carries Welder to Repair Job (Jul, 1933)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1933
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1933
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Tanklike Tractor Carries Welder to Repair Job
Maneuverable as a war tank, an endless-tread tractor, just developed by Westinghouse engineers, carries a built-in welding outfit right to the point where it is needed for railway repairs. The fifteen-foot machine easily ambles across rails, runs along side slopes as steep as forty-five degrees without overturning, and climbs a ramp onto a flat car when its work of repairing battered rail ends and worn crossings is done. Its gasoline motor drives dynamos that supply current for the welding electrodes.
[...] When it comes to automation and robots taking over the role of welders take a look at this piece of equipment found at Modernmechanix [...]
Pingback by International Welder » Blog Archive » Welding Tank!! — February 5, 2007 @ 3:01 pm
wonderful machine… phalic? not sure.
Comment by galessa — February 5, 2007 @ 5:47 pm