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VideoAviation: ClarkorTowing Tractor
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Posted: Saturday, May 06, 2017 - 08:53 PM UTC


For those in need of ground support vehicles for you aircraft, Video Aviation has a nice tractor to help.

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Posted: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 - 04:49 AM UTC
Nifty!!
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Posted: Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 12:42 AM UTC
Hi Kevin

Neat - I can definitely see this featuring in some largescale vignettes and dioramas. But isn't it more WW2/Korean War vintage than modern day?

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 05:30 PM UTC
Perhaps not modern day but still using them up into the sixties and seventies. Louisville Slugger used them to pull a train of old RR baggage carts full of wood blanks from their drying yards to the factory in downtown Louisville.
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Posted: Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 09:25 PM UTC

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Perhaps not modern day but still using them up into the sixties and seventies. Louisville Slugger used them to pull a train of old RR baggage carts full of wood blanks from their drying yards to the factory in downtown Louisville.


That would have been around 1955 thru 1961 give or take.
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Posted: Friday, May 12, 2017 - 01:13 AM UTC
Hi Michael

Many thanks for the extra info. It tallies with what I was thinking. I just found a useful page with plenty of detail shots of a restoration project restoration project. That vehicle had apparently undergone a major overhaul in 1951 before going on to serve for many more years.

My interest was also definitely piqued by other references to the RAF also using them in the 1940s - something I'd not come across before.

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Sunday, May 14, 2017 - 01:17 PM UTC
Got mine on it's way to Thailand already. He is a quick supplier of a very good detailed product line and reasonable good old pricing. Can't wait to see this on arrive.

Kind regards,

Robert Jan
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