Early Truck Cranes

摘要

The first truck cranes were designed to be mounted on conventional over-the-road-trucks. Most often these trucks had rubber tires (including solid tires in their day), but half-track conversion attachments were available to give the truck mobility over poor ground conditions. This idea reached its fulfillment after World War Ⅱ when Bantam and Quickway bought thousands of surplus military trucks, including halftracks, and reconditioned them for use as carriers for their cranes. This is the National Construction Equipment Museum's 1954 Bantam T-35, mounted on a 1941 White halftrack.