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unusual facts about tractor-trailers



1935 Labor Day hurricane

As curiosity, eccentric inventor Donald Roebling was impressed by the difficulties in rescuing victims of this hurricane, and that inspired him to design an amphibious tractor that could travel through flooded areas.

Agrinar

Agrinar SA is a tractor manufacturer located in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Blackridge, West Lothian

The last colliery closed in the late 1950s and Blackridge became a dormitory for nearby towns with, for much of the 1960s and 1970s, the British Leyland truck and tractor assembly plant at Bathgate the principal employer.

Case Corporation

In Europe the merger with New Holland (including the former Fordson and Fiat tractor lines) was the success Case IH expected.

Christina's World

In Romeo + Juliet (1996, dir. Baz Luhrmann), when Romeo learns that Juliet is dead, he falls into the golden grass before a setting sun and screams, "Then I defy you, stars!" The camera pauses above and behind him so that he and the trailers on the hill sort of resemble the position of the painting's buildings, except that the trailers should be farther to the right and the horizon should be much higher.

David Brown Ltd.

In 1972 the company sold the tractor operations to Tenneco Inc. of America, who owned the J.I. Case tractor company.

Dragoneer's Aria

A piano version of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Air on the G String" is also used as the background music for the game's title screen, and was also used for the game's trailers and official Japanese website.

Economic history of Somalia

In Galole near Hargeysa, for example, a government team established a cooperative in 1973, and government funds helped purchase a tractor, a cooperative center, and a grain storage tank.

Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield

The DVD was released on March 6, 2007 as Video Premiere and special features include audio commentary, still gallery, various audio and display options, Spanish subtitles, English closed captions and trailers for Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave, the After Dark Horrorfest, Silent Scream, Open Water 2: Adrift, Black Dahlia, and Saw III.

Ekeberg Line

In addition, six trailers were built from Hannoversche Waggonfabrik (HaWA) The delivery of new rolling stock required a new depot building at Holtet, two new electric arc transformers and a ticket price increase.

El Centro de la Raza

Taco carts, trailers, trucks, and buses became common along Seattle's arterials, even in the traditionally Scandinavian Ballard neighborhood.

Eyrecourt

Eyrecourt is served by two public houses, a post office, library, village store, garage and fast food outlet, pharmacy, tractor dealer, medical centre, primary school, numerous small enterprises and the Meelick-Eyrecourt GAA club.

Ferguson TE20

Standard developed a new wet-liner engine for the tractor, which would in turn be used in Standard's road cars, such as the Vanguard.

Hammersmith Is Out

Hammersmith Is Out was the first film financed by John Crean, the founder of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. a producer of recreational vehicles, travel trailers (including fold-down tent trailers) and manufactured housing.

HMT Limited

HMT started the operation with the manufacture of 25 HP tractor at the manufacturing plant in Pinjore, Haryana state.

Hydraulics International

HII manufactures defense ground support equipment including ammunition loading systems, aircraft hydraulic system testing, aircraft cabin pressure testing, power systems, environmental control systems, military trailers, high pressure gas and liquid systems, flow measuring equipment, and logistics and support services.

If I Was Your Vampire

"If I Was Your Vampire" is also heard on the trailers for the film Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and also for the film adaption of the video game Max Payne.

Ingersoll Power Equipment

In 1983, during the Case Corporation acquisition of International Harvester assets, their garden tractor division was sold to Ingersoll.

Intercontinental Manufacturing Company

The tractors were to be made of components from various sources, including Nateco (National Equipment Company of Texas) tractor base, a Continental Motors Company engine, and a Timken Company transaxle assembly.

Jack Lengyel

On January 12, 2008, seven members of a high school basketball team from Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada and their coach's wife were killed in a highway crash when the 15-seat van they were traveling in collided with a tractor-trailer while returning from a game in Moncton in snowy conditions.

Jennifer Howard

Howard lost her father nine years later in a tractor mishap on their farm near Tyringham, Massachusetts.

Joseph Rakowski

During his four month term of office, Rakowski worked with New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Attorney General Robert J. Del Tufo to address a problem where trucks full of garbage were being driven from New York City to Jersey City, New Jersey and their full trailers abandoned.

Julian Beeston

More recently, he has worked as a composer and producer, making music for TV commercials for companies such as Mitsubishi and Ford and has produced trailers for Universal, Miramax and 20th Century Fox.

Justin Burnett

Additionally, Burnett also worked with Walter Werzowa at Musikvergnuegen from 2000-2005 on many commercials, movie trailers and network branding projects.

Levavasseur project

Finally the project was completely rejected by a 13 August 1908 letter explaining that a continuous tracks tractor was now available in England, the Hornsby of engineer Roberts.

Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. began directing at an early age with promotional trailers for Toyota, Peugeot, Renault, Stella Artois, Pepsi, and Bud Light.

Mike Haggar

Mike Haggar makes a brief appearance in one of the 2011 trailers for Street Fighter X Tekken where he gets beaten by King.

Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope

On April 26, 2006, a Taylor University van carrying nine students and staff members collided with a tractor-trailer being driven by Robert F. Spencer on Interstate 69 in Indiana.

Modalohr

The deck between the bogies (trucks) pivots (swings) 30°, allowing the trailers to be loaded from the sides.

National Museum of Commercial Aviation

Most noteworthy in the collection include the world's only known Martin 404 Cockpit Procedures Trainer (CPT) in Southern Airways livery, TUG Technologies first TUG Tractor, and the cockpit of an ex Eastern Air Lines Martin 404, later owned by Ray Charles.

New Tazewell, Tennessee

New Tazewell is home to a number of factories, including furniture manufacturer England Furniture Incorporated now a division of La-Z-Boy, DeRoyal Industries, Bushline Furniture, King Business Forms, Giles Industries, Homesteader Cargo Trailers and others.

One More Last Chance

In it, Gill and various band members are seen playing a round of golf at a golf course, with Gill having ridden a John Deere tractor to the course.

P-40 radar

The P-40 used the AT-T artillery tractor with tracked chassis, fitted with a 12-cylinder 4-stroke diesel engine with an output of 342 kW (465 hp) and producing a top speed of 55 km/h.

Pasha Angelina

In 1933, she organized an all-female tractor team that was reported to have achieved 129% of the quota and thus to have ranked first among the tractor teams of the region.

Patto

In 2009, Patto's song "The Man" was used in trailers for the film, Observe and Report, starring Seth Rogen and Anna Faris and was included along with another track "Sittin' Back Easy" on the film's soundtrack.

Power car

Multiple units (diesel or electric) usually have a mix of power cars and trailers, often with one of each in a pair which can be coupled to other pairs to form a larger train; see e.g. New Zealand FP class electric multiple unit.

Radschlepper Ost

Idea of heavy multipurpose tractor, intended for prepared invasion of the Soviet Union supposedly came from Adolf Hitler.

In 1941 Ferdinand Porsche prepared design of four-wheel drive tractor, distinguished by large diameter (1500 mm) steel cleated wheels.

René Barrientos

He cooperated with Frederick Pittera, an American inventor and manufacturer of small farm tractors (the chairman of The Tiger Tractor Corp., Keyser, West Virginia, which in 1962 was nominated by the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Presidential 'E' Award for Exports, was endeavoring to introduce a new cooperative farming concept to eliminate world famine with his U.S.-patented small farm tractor equipment.

Rocking Horse Studio

The studios have been used by musicians such as greater Boston rock group The Double Yellow, Theodore Treehouse, The Lucid, Godsmack guitarist Tony Rombola, Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin, Christian Cuff, Might, Joe Mazzari, Sweden's Gustav & the Seasick Sailors, guitarist/producer Duke Levine, Tractor Trailer, Steve Blunt, Will Kindler, Chris Peters, Skamasutra, One Fine Morning, and Cure for Static.

Ryan Farish

Summer 2013, Ryan Farish's song "Be Near" from his album Wonderfall (2008) is licensed by NBCUniversal/Universal Studios to be used in promotional trailers for the major motion picture Despicable Me 2.

Skeleton tank

The Skeleton Tank was an experimental prototype tank built in 1918 by the Pioneer Tractor Company, Winona, Minnesota.

Slipway

They are also used for launching and retrieving small boats on trailers towed by automobiles and flying boats on their undercarriage.

South Australian Railways Bluebird railcar

In the late 1980s some of the 100 class trailers were used as crew carriages on Trans-Australian Railway services and for passenger accomodation on the Indian Pacific.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion

An unrelated CD-ROM also called the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion was released in 1999 and features the scripts for the entire series and the trailers for each episode featuring Don LaFontaine as the announcer among others.

Stonehurst Family Farm and Motor Museum

The farm operates tractor trailer rides for the local children, currently hoping to link up with the Mountsorrel Railway creating a large linked family attraction.

The Inglorious Bastards

Severin Films released a three-disc set that features a newly remastered transfer of the film, an interview with Quentin Tarantino (the director of the similarly titled but unrelated film Inglourious Basterds) and director Enzo G. Castellari, trailers, a tour of shooting locations, a documentary on the making of the film with interviews with Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, and Enzo G. Castellari, and a CD with the soundtrack.

The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation

On July 23, 2009, brothers Stone Weeks, 24, and Holt Weeks, 20, both students at Rice University, were killed on Interstate 81 in Shenandoah County, Virginia, when a tractor-trailer truck struck their car, resulting in a multi-vehicle collision.


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Lane splitting

Buses and tractor-trailers require extreme care, as the cyclist may be nearly invisible to the drivers who may not expect someone to be filtering forward.