1050=1960
1050=1960
After cleaning out our step mothers' house last year. My sister has been gifting us items from it. So for Christmas she gave me these monstrosities.
And of course it turns out they are mildly valuable. Somewhere between $50 and $1000 each. (!)
Anybody here interested?
I still want a Blur wagon. This color and stance isn't helping.
5 minutes ago
Large caliber guns are produced at Watervliet Arsenal in Watervliet, NY, on the west bank of the Hudson River - 1944
From 1940 to 1945, Watervliet’s workers assembled 49,052 cannons, and employed some 9,332 men and women.
*LIFE Magazine Archives - Andreas Feininger Photographer WWP-PD
10 points if you get the reference:
In reply to 914Driver :
That's pretty doggone close to 1 cannon/hr for five years...
1954 I-H R140 4X4 ordered by the Army Corp of Engineers for the Chief Engineers of the Minuteman Missile Sytem in South Dakota. 5 made, 3 survive.
Debbie Harry turns 80 this year.
If this guy isn't your hero, he should be.
Might be a problem.
Yeah, I would DD one of those!
Richard Elgin "Eggy" crashed at 100 mph just two turns from finishing the Isle of Man. (2022)
In reply to johndej :
I've done exactly that. It ain't wrong if it works.
stroker said:In reply to 914Driver :
That's pretty doggone close to 1 cannon/hr for five years...
Yeah, and those aren't Mortars that slip into a backpack. Thr ones on the left side of the floor are 8" Navy guns and the ones on the aisle and right side are the longer M-107 175mm. self-propelled.
That's Bldg. 110, coupla thousand feet long.
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