TEI #30 - Solved. Douglas Tugmaster with Compressor for Moving Hovering Pallets

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Tom_I

#26
July 17, 2013, 05:41:58 AM
No, not a Scammell.

D-type

#27
August 01, 2013, 05:54:04 PM
Any connection to BICC the cable manufacturers?
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Tom_I

#28
August 01, 2013, 05:59:56 PM
Not as far as I know. This vehicle was commissioned by an organisation that used the cable, rather than produced it.

Otto Puzzell

#29
August 02, 2013, 04:04:52 AM
Was the user of the cable the BBC?
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Allan L

#30
August 02, 2013, 04:11:17 AM
Looks the sort of vehicle Shelvok & Drewry would have made, but I can't see it in the SD book.
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Tom_I

#32
August 02, 2013, 04:43:49 AM
Quote from: Allan L on August 02, 2013, 04:11:17 AM
Looks the sort of vehicle Shelvok & Drewry would have made, but I can't see it in the SD book.

It's not made by SD. The company concerned made a wide variety of one-off and specialised vehicles, but is best known for one particular type of utility vehicle.

Otto Puzzell

#33
August 02, 2013, 05:24:13 AM
British Telecom?
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Tom_I

#34
August 02, 2013, 07:34:53 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 02, 2013, 05:24:13 AM
British Telecom?

Yes!

(But at the time when this vehicle was built, it was still called Post Office Telecommunications.)

Otto Puzzell

#35
August 02, 2013, 08:17:21 AM
Transatlantic cables?
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nicanary

#36
August 02, 2013, 08:44:03 AM
Made by Johnstons ?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

Tom_I

#37
August 02, 2013, 09:00:31 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 02, 2013, 08:17:21 AM
Transatlantic cables?

I'm not sure, but certainly something along those lines.

nicanary

#39
August 02, 2013, 11:33:02 AM
Coles ?
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Tom_I

#40
August 02, 2013, 11:33:50 AM
Not Coles either.

nicanary

#41
August 04, 2013, 04:15:07 PM
Dennis ?
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Tom_I

#42
August 04, 2013, 05:26:49 PM
No, not Dennis.

The company that built this vehicle is still in business. Focus on what sort of vehicle this is based on, and I think you will soon find the manufacturer.

To gain a point, though, you will also need to find how this machine worked, and the key to that is what is in the large metal box mounted on the back. As said earlier, it is "seriously big", and we have established that it is not an electrical generator.  ;)

nicanary

#43
August 07, 2013, 06:23:25 AM
I've only just noticed your comment that there is an indirect link to airports. Is this truck based on an aircraft-towing vehicle ? Lansing-Bagnall ?
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Otto Puzzell

#44
August 07, 2013, 06:47:30 AM
The big thing in the box was probably a winch or a cable tensioner.
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Tom_I

#45
August 07, 2013, 08:39:32 AM
Quote from: nicanary on August 07, 2013, 06:23:25 AM
I've only just noticed your comment that there is an indirect link to airports. Is this truck based on an aircraft-towing vehicle ? Lansing-Bagnall ?

It is based on an airport tug, but not a Lansing-Bagnall.

Tom_I

#46
August 07, 2013, 08:40:03 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 07, 2013, 06:47:30 AM
The big thing in the box was probably a winch or a cable tensioner.

Neither of those.

Otto Puzzell

#47
August 07, 2013, 09:37:39 AM
A transmitter or relay station?
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Tom_I

#48
August 07, 2013, 10:00:48 AM
No. There's a clue in the picture.

Otto Puzzell

#49
August 07, 2013, 10:26:40 AM
Does it combine individual strands into larger, bundled cables?
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