What is This Odd-Looking Thingie [1 and Only]

[fbastos]

Will give a hand. Is this:

(a) An engine-recovery car from aircraft crashes on hostile terrain?
(b) An airplane engine mobile workshop?
(c) A gas-dispensing chemical car?
(d) A failed proposal to protect troops from gas attacks?
(e) General Fauney's mobile fan for his HQ?

The answer, my friend, the answer is in the wind (wagon).

[Onime No Kyo]

It's one of those things the Bolsheviks used to always make their flags flutter in the breeze, even when there was none. Very importaint. Can almost say it won the revolution. When times got really hard during the civil war, gas became scarce and the engine was replaced by a 3-man treadmill.

[gunnergoz]

Mark XXVVIII WAC/WAVE Skirtlifter. No longer thought to be humorous in today's PC environment, this odd device was the brainchild of Pete "Peekaboo" Watkins, West Point Class of '19. Designed to be driven in front of columns of female war workers at parades and festivities. It worked all too well and after FDR was treated to a chance glimpse of Eleanor's drawers during a 4th of July Parade, it was quickly retired.

[Titanwarrior89]

My first car[:D]

[pad152]

That's what you get from a bad remake of "Flight of the Phoenix".[;)]

[byron13]

Since you've presumably provided the correct answer, I'm going to say a chemical dispenser. More accurately, I'd say a way of creating smoke screens.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: byron13

Since you've presumably provided the correct answer, I'm going to say a chemical dispenser. More accurately, I'd say a way of creating smoke screens.

Well, since you staked that one out - i'll go for D - failed attempt to protect troops from chemical attacks.

[mogami]

Hi, That my friend is a very rare photo of the French "Grand Motorisé Fromage Trancheuse" Employed from 1911 to 1919 by Francoius Mamelle de vache for his out door catering service. Notice the wine dispenser in front. (A giant "box o wine" was stored under the hood. )

[rtrapasso]

Hi, That my friend is a very rare photo of the French "Grand Motorisé Fromage Trancheuse" Employed from 1911 to 1919 by Francoius Mamelle de vache for his out door catering service. Notice the wine dispenser in front. (A giant "box o wine" was stored under the hood. )

Good one![:D]


However, i actually found this monster: 1915 Sizaire-Berwick "Wind Wagon"

The "Wind Wagon" was a 1915 Admiralty experiment. R.N.A.S. squadrons were being withdrawn from the Western Front and sent to Africa and the Near East, where the terrain wasn't suited to conventional cars. Only one was made, and it was only tested in England.