Quarter-Ton "Peep" Leaps Ravine on Cable "Sky Ride"

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When members of Battery C, 103rd Coast Artillery, under Capt. Steve J. Meade at Fort Sheridan, IIl., come face to face with a ravine that is impassable for quarter-ton “peeps,” their last thought would be to turn back or look for & way to run around it. Instead, they rig up a “sky ride” by anchoring a cable to two trees and suspending it over the big ditch. Then the peeps are slung on the cableway by means of a pulley arrangement, and a rope, powered by a winch on a truck, tows them across one at a time.

Title (Dublin Core)
Quarter-Ton "Peep" Leaps Ravine on Cable "Sky Ride"
Subject (Dublin Core)
en
en
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
Quarter-Ton "Peep" Leaps Ravine on Cable "Sky Ride"
Language (Dublin Core)
Eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1942-07
Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
Popular Mechanics, vol. 78, n. 1, 1942
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
81
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public domain
Source (Dublin Core)
Google books
References (Dublin Core)
Fort Sheridan
Illinois
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Enrico Saonara