Strange Vehicles. - Page 9

Bodston · 27-09-2007, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Von Poop

Just putting Boston's peculiar unidentified machine from 'name that vehicle in here so I can find it more easily:

It's got 'Scorpion' written on it.
We think it's British.
It seems to have had an outboard motor.
It definitely qualifies as a 'strange vehicle'.
(I can't even work out how the wheel arrangement works...)

Just found some more info.. after my amphibious search marathon.. From 'The Observer's Fighting Vehicles Directory of World War II' by Bart Vanderveen

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The Opperman Scorpion was a private venture, designed to be either a small armoured vehicle or 30-cwt load carrier, It had two wheels in the centre, overlapping smaller ones fore and aft, and a single wheel mid-front and mid-rear. Water propulsion of this most unusual vehicle was by out board motor.

Bodston · 27-09-2007, 10:40 AM

A little more digging about the Opperman Scorpion. The company built small horticultural vehicles, and later a couple of small cars. There is a little more information here http://www.isetta-owners-club-gb.com/rare_6.htm

von Poop · 02-10-2007, 09:36 PM

Pleasing... but strange:
Russian planes of WW1

Bodston · 02-10-2007, 10:44 PM

A selection from the Dirty '30s

You gotta love the jungle yacht

Bodston · 03-10-2007, 09:12 PM

Did some follow up on this fascinating monster. This website seems to have the business. Including film of it in action. Snowcruiser

von Poop · 03-10-2007, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Bodston

Did some follow up on this fascinating monster. This website seems to have the business. Including film of it in action. Snowcruiser

I hadn't registered the scale of the thing.
Massive!

Bodston · 03-10-2007, 10:04 PM

I know, it looks for all the world like a Gerry Anderson model. I Couldn't believe that they actually built and ran it.

Za Rodinu · 03-10-2007, 11:21 PM

von Poop · 04-10-2007, 04:22 PM

Apologies to those that also hang about on ww2f but I had to share this Steam powered plane that one gent posted there:

YouTube - The Besler Steam Plane

The Besler Steam Plane 1933 - the first (and probably only) plane which successfully went into the air under steam power!

Steam Aeroplanes.

von Poop · 12-10-2007, 10:13 PM

English Russia » Lada Tank

02-10-2007, 10:44 PM	#84 (permalink)
Bodston Little Willy Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: just around the corner Posts: 1,940	A selection from the Dirty '30s You gotta love the jungle yacht __________________ My mother told me, I never should, play with the gypsies in the wood. Last edited by von Poop; 02-10-2007 at 10:54 PM. Reason: Just tidying up distorted page format... don't mind me.

03-10-2007, 09:12 PM	#85 (permalink)
Bodston Little Willy Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: just around the corner Posts: 1,940	The Antarctic Snow Cruiser Did some follow up on this fascinating monster. This website seems to have the business. Including film of it in action. Snowcruiser __________________ My mother told me, I never should, play with the gypsies in the wood.

03-10-2007, 10:04 PM	#87 (permalink)
Bodston Little Willy Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: just around the corner Posts: 1,940	I know, it looks for all the world like a Gerry Anderson model. I Couldn't believe that they actually built and ran it. __________________ My mother told me, I never should, play with the gypsies in the wood.

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Za Rodinu I'm getting soft! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Where the sun doth shine :) Posts: 3,709	__________________ Herodotus on the Persians: "It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberation, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine."

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02-10-2007, 09:36 PM	#83 (permalink)
von Poop Adaministrator Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: The Abbey of Thelema Posts: 8,596	Pleasing... but strange: Russian planes of WW1

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von Poop Adaministrator Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: The Abbey of Thelema Posts: 8,596	Apologies to those that also hang about on ww2f but I had to share this Steam powered plane that one gent posted there: YouTube - The Besler Steam Plane The Besler Steam Plane 1933 - the first (and probably only) plane which successfully went into the air under steam power! Steam Aeroplanes.

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von Poop Adaministrator Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: The Abbey of Thelema Posts: 8,596	English Russia » Lada Tank

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