High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools

**suther51** · Feb 20, 2019, 08:23 PM

Real special label for the one with the wad of string (?) In the middle ;-)

Tactile identifier?

Eric

**Jon** · Feb 26, 2019, 09:37 PM

Avery 40-80 tractor. 1917.

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**Jon** · Feb 27, 2019, 07:29 PM

Fageol heavy-duty tractor and trailers. 1918.

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**cmarlow** · Feb 27, 2019, 08:09 PM

This Fageol thing looks more like a road train than a tractor and trailers. I am wondering if it had air brakes. It looks like all of the trucks under the engine as well as the cars were steering.

Fageol also produced the Cargoliner truck in the 1950s. The front steering was unusual because the whole axle pivoted like a wagon axle would.

**Toolmaker51** · Feb 27, 2019, 07:50 PM

Seems trailer chassis have a LOT of plumbing, quite similar to the tractor.
Looks like the boxes are capable of side dump? Latches at the bottom, hinges atop.
And I'd want to be the fly on wall, for sales pitch on [non-existant] forward and starboard visibility. "Well sir, good point; but top speed is only 8mph, left hand turns are easy, and texting hasn't been invented yet."

**Jon** · Mar 31, 2019, 03:53 PM

Official Maybach Motorenbau Works photo of type MD870 diesel motor, delivered to the German Federal Railways (Deutsche Bundesbahn) in the 1950s.

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**Frank S** · Apr 12, 2019, 09:08 AM

The next step after the hydraulic tracers was the punch card with hydraulic movement I almost bought a horizontal center that also had a high speed for the time period vertical spindle. The problem as I saw it was there were no manual controls and the NC controller with a punch card slot was non functional, the machine was a few years old in the early 90s and repairing or upgrading it would have cost twice as much as I could have bought the machine for