Opel Blitz Skyjector 1959

grobmotorix · October 21, 2010, 04:23:45 PM

One point for the basis vehicle
Another point for its function and name.

grobmotorix · October 26, 2010, 02:50:00 PM

I´m still waiting for the first shoot...

grobmotorix · November 04, 2010, 03:23:11 AM

Experts know more?

Oswald · November 04, 2010, 04:42:09 AM

I think the back of this transporter carries the cannon that was used by the female 'human cannonballs' Egle Victoria Zacchini and Duina Zacchini.

grobmotorix · November 04, 2010, 05:01:42 AM

The diameter would be big enough, but it is not an artist´s cannon to shoot humans at all.

This was the Zacchini gun:

als15 · November 04, 2010, 11:53:24 AM

Some weird attempt to force clouds raining?

grobmotorix · November 04, 2010, 12:16:40 PM

Nice idea, indeed, but it´s got nothing to do with shooting objects or with the weather...

als15 · November 04, 2010, 12:22:08 PM

The most obvious... portable telescope?

grobmotorix · November 04, 2010, 12:26:24 PM

No it is not a telescope, but you´re on to something.

als15 · November 04, 2010, 01:28:15 PM

Some kind of radio device?

pguillem · November 04, 2010, 02:18:14 PM

A mosquito shooter ?

grobmotorix · November 04, 2010, 03:05:44 PM

QuoteA mosquito shooter ?

No sorry, think immaterial...

als15 · November 04, 2010, 03:12:41 PM

Quote from: als15 on November 04, 2010, 01:28:15 PM
Some kind of radio device?

D-type · November 04, 2010, 06:59:31 PM

For spraying foam on aircraft fires ?

grobmotorix · November 04, 2010, 07:06:08 PM

No.
Again, think immaterial.

als15 · November 05, 2010, 03:55:33 AM

A radar or some other device to detect something?

grobmotorix · November 05, 2010, 04:24:21 AM

Not a radar, nothing to detect.

It is much easier than you may think.

BTW: there´s still one extra point to be awarded for the name of the basis truck.

Tom_I · November 05, 2010, 06:37:43 AM

It seems to be parked in the middle of agricultural land. Is it some sort of bird scarer?

grobmotorix · November 05, 2010, 08:37:46 AM

No sound and no material things came out of this "canon".

So what´s left???

Tom_I · November 05, 2010, 08:49:19 AM

Light?

Does it project something on to clouds?

fyreline · November 05, 2010, 10:02:50 AM

Looks like either a Bedford or Commer chassis from this angle . . . as to the purpose of the giant gun, not a clue, although Tom may be on to somethng with the light ray?

grobmotorix · November 05, 2010, 10:14:14 AM

Locked for Tom_I !

It is indeed a huge projector to show pictures on clouds or Mountains or other huge areas.

What I need nowe is its specific name...

And for the vehicle:

Not a Bedford, not a Commer, not british at all.

Carnut · November 05, 2010, 10:16:02 AM

Is it a Magirus-Deutz?

Tom_I · November 05, 2010, 10:46:45 AM

It was called the Skyjector, developed by a Swiss gentleman called Michael Schwabacher around 1959.

It seems to have been planned mainly for publicity and advertising, and was demonstrated in New York in February 1960, as well as in Switzerland.

Oddly enough, it wasn't an entirely original idea, as a British inventor called Harry Grindell Matthews had produced something remarkably similar in about 1933.

Another couple of pictures below. I'm not very good on trucks, but I think it's an Opel Blitz.

fyreline · November 05, 2010, 11:17:18 AM

Bravo, Tom!

Now what IS that damned truck?

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Opel Blitz Skyjector 1959