Squirrel Cage for Jeeps (Feb, 1949)
Filed under: Automotive, Impractical — @ 10:16 am
Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1949
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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1949
| Buy on Ebay
How exactly does one turn with this thing?
Squirrel Cage for jeeps is this new device for travel over swamps, bogs, soft beaches and heavy underbrush. It’s a continuous road matting on rollers which runs around the body and under the wheels. The Marine Corps is testing it at the Quantico, Virginia, base.
not to mention the large quantities of sand or mud you’d get all over you and in the car.
Comment by galessa — May 22, 2007 @ 11:44 am
My gracious yes, that would be a royal mess. I, also, wonder how it would turn!
Comment by Caya — May 23, 2007 @ 4:17 pm
Great comments.
Comment by Stannous — May 23, 2007 @ 5:43 pm
100 foot cable winches are dirt cheap these days, and saved me many a time in a Land Cruiser (back in the 80s when Jeeps were made of tin foil). You need a long cable since swamps don’t have a lot of trees growing in them!
Comment by NikFromNYC — January 14, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
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Here is a better picture of it http://www.gettyimages.com/det.....e-Pictures
The story went on for a while http://news.google.com/newspap.....63,2698443
Comment by Firebrand38 — July 26, 2009 @ 5:09 pm
Interesting Firebrand. The Getty Images photo is credited to a relatively famous marine who died in Febuary of this year.
Comment by JMyint — July 26, 2009 @ 5:27 pm
Very interesting contraption. Its unfortunately hard to tell from the photo how exactly the device was attached to the jeep.
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