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Chrysler

It seems to be an Early M3 "LEE" tank built by a old American company known as Chrysler...

 

WWII vintage

Keeping in the spirit of old riveted stuff, we are rebuilding one of the original WWII "Higgins" PT boats at the WWII museum in New Orleans. I find the design very advanced for its time. The structure used some aluminum plates and extrusions riveted as monocoque segments. These were integrated into the wooden hull, a very early use of aluminum in US patrol vessels. In the photos of our PT305 you can see the forward crew cabin area with deep web framing where you would crawl through a "lightning" hole to get in your bunk. Also, some of the aluminum riveted structure in the engine room.

 

is that built by Elco

 

HIGGIN's

No, PT 305 was built at Higgins shipyard in New Orleans with quite a bit difference between the Elco, and others. Total PT production was Elco built 345, Higgins 210, Huckins 18 and 4 built by the "Canadian Power Boat Company. Higgins is best known for the Landing craft and made the best performing PB's. Eisenhower famously credited Andrew Higgins with winning WWII due to his landing craft design and production, the LCVP used in all amphibious assaults. More than 20,000 Higgins LCVP's were built.

 

Cant be, the men arent wearing hats... !

 

Yeah- I was struck by the clarity as well.

I got interested in rivets for some reason I can't quite remember & this photo was on the wiki page...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M3_tank_riveting_LOC_fsa_8e10699.jpg

The bio:

"TITLE: Chrysler tank arsenal. Thousands of rivets are used in the production of one of the huge thirty-eight ton M-3 tanks. Whenever possible rivets are replaced by welded sections, but throughout much of the tank, as in the side plates on which this riveter is working, the steel plate is too heavy for welding. The riveting itself, a twenty-five ton

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1940 and 1946]

CREATOR:

Palmer, Alfred T., photographer.

PART OF: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)"

 

Great pic anyway, thanks.

 

I always thought the Ark was big but Nimitz is a monster!

 

I dont think its possible to appreciate how big that thing is unless you have actually seen it

 

Must have a ruddy great big outboard, thats all I can say.

 

http://ricks-place.net/files/LobbyCards/index.htm


Postcards
http://www.hovermailcc.co.uk/

 

Avrocars

While we're on the subject of hovering stuff.... let's go back to the late '50s, and take a look at the Avrocar- Canada's real, working flying saucer from 1958-61. US military money, a few slightly eccentric Canadian engineers, and they came up with this.

Unfortunately, it never quite met its expectations:
Maximum speed (estimated): 300 mph (480 km/h)
Maximum speed (actual): 35 mph (56 km/h)
Maximum range (estimated): 995 mi (1,600 km)
Maximum range (actual): 79 mi (127 km)

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrocar

 

Proved once and for all that we did not develop flying saucers from NAZI technology.

http://newspundit.net/

 

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/showphoto.php?photo=14528&cat=595&limit=recent

 

hi
or Kachi somone has faked them
aztek