Emirate Truck Factory: 8x8x8 to 24x24x24, single or multiple linked units....
For those who prefer to think in multi-wheel configurations....;))
.....it's life Jim, but not as we know it....:)) http://www.etftrucks.nl/Products/Roadtrains/ F*cking brilliant.... PS: until now, the Russian MAZ-9304 was the largest (all-wheel-drive!) wheeled vehicle on earth (300 ton total): http://denisovets.narod.ru/maz/mazpages/maz7904.html (but apparently there was only one prototype made, and it is sadly rusting away somewhere in a factory shed) (perhaps 'hangar' is the better word....wouldn't mind having only that shed, with storage room for several dozen ordinary vehicles....;)) -- Bye, Willem-Jan Markerink The desire to understand is sometimes far less intelligent than the inability to understand > [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!] |
Emirate Truck Factory: 8x8x8 to 24x24x24, single or multiple linked units....
"« Paul »" > wrote in :
> Willem-Jan Markerink wrote: >> >> For those who prefer to think in multi-wheel configurations....;)) >> >> ....it's life Jim, but not as we know it....:)) >> >> http://www.etftrucks.nl/Products/Roadtrains/ >> >> F*cking brilliant.... >> >> PS: until now, the Russian MAZ-9304 was the largest (all-wheel-drive!) >> wheeled vehicle on earth (300 ton total): >> >> http://denisovets.narod.ru/maz/mazpages/maz7904.html >> >> (but apparently there was only one prototype made, and it is sadly rusting >> away somewhere in a factory shed) >> (perhaps 'hangar' is the better word....wouldn't mind having only that >> shed, with storage room for several dozen ordinary vehicles....;)) >> > > Great links. Thanks! > Mind you, only a few days earlier, I noticed the same 'pendulum dually' in an article about the history of DAF (Dutch Van Doorne Automobiel Fabriek)....back then, in 1934, only as a lazy axle on a semi-trailer (niftily suspended by 2 traverse leafsprings, one front, one rear (outsides of each pendulum resting on the tips of those springs)). Could be an invention on the same level as the even more fascinating 'H- drive'....and in this article (in a German magazine about truck-history) I also read for the first time that it was the Dutch military officer 'Van Trappen' who inspired the first incarnation of this 'Trado' axle (TRAppen & DOorne), making very easy conversions possible of 4x4 trucks into 6x6 (or 4x2 into 4x6), with insanely good articulation on the rear axles (only limited by the brake-system, in theory it could go all the way around, rear axle becoming front axle). Mind you2: this isn't the first electrical all-wheel drive monster vehicle either, not even the first multi-multi-segment configuration....try googling on 'LeTourneau Land Train', and be dazzled what was invented *and* deployed in the 50's. (at first, it just looks as one more crazy big 4x4/6x6 truck with non-driven trailers, but they use gas generators in front-most and rear-most segment, powering all wheels electrically) Quite a shame that such marvels of technology are now rusting away somewhere, long forgotten. -- Bye, Willem-Jan Markerink The desire to understand is sometimes far less intelligent than the inability to understand > [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!] |
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