2009. október 31., szombat

The wages of fear / Le salaire de la peur. 1953





If You never seen, don't forget to do it! A great film of Henri-Georges Clouzot, from 1953. A story about four men, who get a very dangerous job; to drive two trucks, fully loaded with nitroglicerin, across 500 Kms...

2009. október 26., hétfő

Factory files.

Found on www.LIFE.com. A nice, factory photo about cargo version. Enlarge it for see the details clearly!

2009. október 25., vasárnap

Portrait. Jack Brown in Korea.


Jack Brown, driver of 17 FA. Bn. standing by his truck. Korea, 1951.

2009. október 24., szombat

Engineers in trouble.

Stucked vehicles in the swollen Volturno river, at Salerno, Italy. Note the second Brockway and M32 ARV on the background. A LeRoi compressor equipped GMC is at the rear of the nearest bridge truck.

2009. október 23., péntek

A beast by Antonio Guarderas.






Here are some pics of a really fantastic looking Brockway, built by Antonio Guarderas. He completted it with different loads. He posted his nice works on the best site of military modellers: www.missing-lynx.com

2009. október 22., csütörtök

Trucks of 300th comb.eng.btn Part 1.




I found many good pics on the site of 300th Comb.Eng.Btn. Watch it!

2009. október 20., kedd

A restored example in Liberty Park Overloon


The dutch Liberty Park in Overloon is one of the largest collection of restored allied vehicles in Europe. If you write its name in the google, will find many photograps about the collection. Need to see! The site of the museum:
http://www.oorlogsmuseum-overloon.nl/index.php?t=en

Moving bridge erectors in France.





I found this amazing frames in the fantastic 4 disc set about WWII of MMandV. I never seen before Brockway bridge erector truck tow trailer. The massive amount of equipment looks really good on them. Note the pipe of landing equipment on the windsreen!