USA army trailer ?

Steve,

Found this photo looks like yours.

Oxygen Gas Generator at Ordinance Park in Sydney 1943

REO 6X6 prime mover.

Lang

Steve,

Here is a clear shot of the trailer couplings on what I suspect is the trailer in the above photo.

Lang

RE: trailer couplings

Look like Glad Hands

Just like when 2 jokerz meet shake hands .......n glad to meat U

the glad hand cupling iz a thro back to Yanky westinghouse rail connections
But the rail connections R a lot bigger to transfer more air
n the rail jokers don't disconnect m
they just drive off n they disconnect

But
EyeDoSt&2BCorrected!

Cya

[ch9787]

Here are some more of that prime mover.

coo, well done Lang. I am a bit confused as to how the turntable couples up,(even when it's not on it's side )

Mammoth (Mr Pots)
Hope u n u're pots R OK

LOL

The 5th wheel with pic @ 90
tiz jist a common garden variety Qik release turn table
5th wheel dood dadd
Looks 2 B a Herclif or Freighter QR T/T mounted on a waffle plate

TH@ Stir n stik out the side of Lumberin Sue haz me worried

LOL

Cya

[ch9787]

TH@ Stir n stik out the side of Lumberin Sue haz me worried

Me Too, Swishy. (more confused actually) Anybody (Lang?) tell us what It does...........

Wot bout

a Air raid siren
A inertia start for crank n the cranky ol beast ovr
( n U can spl th@ any way U wanna)
LOL

...these were beautiful big jiggers supplied under the US miltary designation M1A1 wrecker/refueller...which encompassed a range of manufacturers all competing for the wartime contracts....

...those front mounted Cleco Gruss oleo pneumatic shock absorbers were reserved for only the biggest rigs that the US military specified....Beiderman, REO and Diamond T included....

The handle has me tossed at the moment. As suggested above maybe an inertia starter but the handle does not seem big enough.

We had a DC-3 in the PNG Air Transport Squadron that had one engine with a normal electric starter and one with an inertia starter (normally spun up electrically). We did a manual demo on the inertia starter for everyone and the handle had about an 18" crank and the bloke swinging it out on the wing really had to get it wound up.

This does not look big enough.

If it is just a gear because the engine is so big - half the effort = double the speed then the cranker's arms would be a spinning blur.

What about just a simple right angle drive. These big trucks had all sorts of heavy gear on them and if it had a big winch on the front (as the aircraft recovery versions had) it would block a straight run for the handle into the crank pulley.

Lang