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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018   
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Very good thread for anyone interested in this sort of stuff:
 Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Think Defence (@thinkdefence) Tweeted: Today we are going to talk about a little known chapter in Army logistics vehicles, Multidrive, an opportunity squandered perhaps? 1/ https://t.co/LuIYwYoQ0X https://twitter.com/thinkdefence/status/1218606849169264641?s=20 |
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21st Jan 2020 6:28am |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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Interesting stuff. I do like a bit of obscure military vehicle history. The concept wasn't new though - powered trailers were being used in prototype form behind 101's in 1969 and were famously used and abandoned by the Joint Services Trans Sahara expedition in 1975. They never went into production though, due to cost and complexity problems. Darren
110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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21st Jan 2020 8:12am |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831 
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Powered trailers, Only saw a civilian one up on the A66 near Bowes back in the early 1970's one winters morning. The front axel lost grip in the snow and the trailer pushed on causing the unit to jack knife. Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to  us off.
Richard |
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21st Jan 2020 2:04pm |
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| 22900013A Member Since: 23 Dec 2010 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 3150 
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North eastern electricity board used them behind landrovers. 2011 110 USW
1973 Series III 1-Ton 1972 Series III 1-Ton Cherrypicker 1969 IIA 1-Ton 1966 IIA 88" |
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21st Jan 2020 2:27pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018
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I read about that, and apparently the trick was to select reverse and the powered trailer would pull the 101 back onto it's wheels again.! |
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21st Jan 2020 3:10pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17598 
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A few years ago there was a civvy Multidrive RTW that I used to see regularly in the Blandford/Wimborne are, but I have seen it for quite a while now. A good system in most respects.
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21st Jan 2020 7:25pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443  
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Many years ago working on a farm we had a trailed lime spreader with a power axle. The idea was to use it on a Massey Ferguson tractor and put the drive through the Power Take Off shaft. MF's had a ground drive set up on the PTO where the PTO shaft was driven from the gearbox of the tractor rather than the Live Drive which was driven via the engine.
The difference was that whichever way you put the control lever, in Ground Drive then the speed of the tractor would denote the speed of the PTO so the faster you went the faster the PTO, in Live Drive you would set the speed of the PTO then alter the tractors speed to match what you were driving by the PTO. The little drawback to this was that young Carlos Fandango types found that if you put the tractor gearbox into neutral and put the PTO into Live drive then you could use the driven axle on the trailer to push you along down the road. Road speed was improved greatly and it was nothing to be bowling down the road with your teeth clenched catching flies at speeds nearing 40mph. When you think that tractors in those days had a job to get anywhere near 20mph it was a little invigorating  |
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21st Jan 2020 10:07pm |
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| doublecabjon Member Since: 28 Sep 2014 Location: Dorset Posts: 31
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 Very good! |
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21st Jan 2020 11:28pm |
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