Tractor Tug: a six-wheeled jeep for utility purposes at advanced airfields
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Tractor Tug: a six-wheeled jeep for utility purposes at advanced airfields
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Airborne tractor with trailers does truck's job
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A SIX-WHEELED cousin of
the jeep, weighing only |
3,300 pounds, is being tested as |
a substitute for the slower, |
5,500-pound Standard AAF Tug |
for utility purposes at advanced |
airfields. With special trailers |
designed for it by the AAF Ma-
teriel Command, it can do the |
work of a 2 1/2-ton, 6 x 6 Army |
truck. |
Known as the Tractor Tug
(Airborne), the little giant has
a flat body platform which is |
piled with sandbags to give trac-
tion when it is used for pulling |
heavy planes over soft ground |
around landing strips. Flyers |
ride it to dispersed aircraft.
A van-body trailer serves as |
a wheeled packing case for de-
livery of the tug to the front;
after that, the tug pulls the
trailer as a general cargo carrier
or as an ambulance litter carrier.
A utility-rack trailer has de-
tachable hoist and jack fittings
for changing engines in planes.
A technical-supply trailer car- |
ries plane parts and supplies in
built-in drawers and cabinets.
Sixty-five percent of the tug's
parts are interchangeable with |
those of the 1/ 4 -ton truck (jeep). |
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1944-03
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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115
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 144, n. 3, 1944
