Re: [MV] Mack Navy truck on ebay

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 09:22:04 PST


At 8:58 AM -0800 4/1/05, chance wolf wrote:
>
>At work we have a 1962 International Emeryville ex-US NAVY truck with
>exactly the same setup and I *think* exactly the same winch. These trucks
>could be father and son. The winch looks as though it could pull the
>turrets off a battleship, but as yet we haven't figured out what the thing
>might've been used for in Navy service. We've had suggestions ranging from
>ammunition hauling to Polaris missile transportation to boat launch and
>recovery, but thus far nothing definitive. Whatever it hauled it was either
>extremely heavy, or extremely reluctant to "come aboard".

Hauling Lighters, parts, machinery and other big Shippish things needs big stuff.

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