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Picture what was happening to Europe during the early 1940s. What remained of its cobbled or macadamed roadways had been pounded into bogged tracks, either by falling artillery rounds or the wheels and treads of marauding armies. Across this battered landscape, the Allies had to quickly reposition tanks and other armored vehicles where they were needed, at a much greater overland speed than the vehicles themselves could muster.
Problem, meet solution. The Knuckney Truck Company of San Francisco, in response to a War Department request, designed a huge tank transporter, dubbed the M-26, in 1943. The first protoype tractor, shown here, used a 1,040-cu.in. Hall-Scott 440 gasoline engine with 240hp, and a proprietary Knuckney-designed tandem chain drive. The Army loved it, the M26 being easily capable of handling a Sherman tank. Since Knuckney was a very small company with limited assembly capacity, almost all of the M26s were built by Pacific Car and Foundry of Renton, Washington, which, ironically, had previously been welding up Shermans.
Once connected to its trailer, and especially when loaded to its nearly 109,000-pound capacity, the M26 “Dragon Wagon” was an enormous vehicle. That kept it from being replicated in scale until relatively recently, but the wait was arguably worth it. Tamiya produces a premium plastic model kit of this monstrous, ballistically hardened truck in 1/35th scale, the preferred proportion for builders of armored vehicles. Since then, Academy has introduced a more shelf-friendly kit in smaller 1/72nd scale, usually associated with plastic model aircraft. You can learn more by contacting the distributor, Stevens International of Magnolia, New Jersey, at www.stevenshobby.com or at 856-435-1555.
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Last summer, we were patrolling the vendor tables at the AACA Regional on the SUNY campus in Binghamton, New York, when we came upon a guy selling a bunch of vintage tin toys. The eye was originally drawn to this “replica” of a Silver Eagle intercity bus as operated by Continental Trailways, made, natch, in the Far East. The coach body’s approximated lines indicate that the prototype was probably a Silver Eagle from the 1970s. On the last day of the AACA show, the seller was asking $85 for it, best recollection, way too rich for our tastes. Still, the earliest versions of this bus, as designed for Continental Trailways in 1956 by Karl Kassbohrer AG, and powered by a MAN diesel, is one of my all-time favorite vehicles ever. The replicated bodywork here reflects an Eagle after production flew in 1968 to Brownsville, Texas.
We badly need a true scale model of a Trailways Silver Eagle or even better, one of the original German-built Golden Eagles. We’ve got quality models of a Flxible Clipper and the GM “Fishbowl” in both 1/50th scale and HO, and a 1/25th-scale Scenicruiser die-cast is allegedly on the way, so why not an Eagle? At least we’re about to receive this from Classic Metal Works, an HO-scale casting of a GM PD 4103 intercity bus, circa about 1951, successor to the legendary GM “Silversides,” in Greyhound livery. Go to www.classicmetalworks.com for more info.
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