At the same time Eisenhauer was using using dual front axles, Oshkosh out of Wisconsin was doing the same. They were really common in mid-Michigan in the 1960's for crews building the Interstate Highway system. Oddly, the big user of the Oshkosh trucks in Lansing was a concrete company named Eisenhowser.
@@brettmorton7365 The US interstate highway system is a network of limited access highways that have their origins with Dwight Eisenhower's wishes to have a national highway system as efficient as the one he witnessed in Germany during WW II. Funding for the system was originally under the Defense Department. The original plan was that the highways would act as alternative airstrips for airplanes, provide hangers for said planes and provide a transport system for fast moving military units. This was all cold war thinking. Construction of the network started in the mid-1950's and is still under construction today. A main north south part - I-69 from the Us border with Canada south to Mexico is still not completed. Every city in the US is served by at least one of these highways, usually being a hub for the connection between multiple highways converging. The US highway system really does define much about the US. We have far less public transportation than other countries. We depend on freight movement by trucks over longer distances than other countries allow/encourage. Ownership of vehicle is a social bench mark for many, and defines status in ways not experienced in other countries. If you ever want to do a case study of a project with unexpected outcomes and consequences, the US highway system would be a good subject to research. And I've manged to NOT answer your question. If by 'built together' you mean all at one time, no. It is 'built together' if you mean inter connection of its various parts. What it replaced were state owned and maintained roads that were not designed to carry this much volume of traffic or at these speeds.
My father in the 60's and 70's worked as a truck mechanic in a shop up the road from the Diamond Reo truck plant in Lansing, Michigan. They occasionally got custom builds Reo didn't want to handle. One of the ones he got was a late 40's Reo truck used in the Upper Peninsula's logging industry. It had four Reo four cylinder gas engines. They were paired up two sets side by side and then inline with each other. A big 16 cylinder box of an engine. I don't know anything else about it except it was brought to them in the early 70's to do a much needed overhaul.
Though it is not a truck, one of the engines used in the Sherman tank in WW II was an engine made of of five Plymouth six cylinder engines with a common crank. It produced somewhere around 500 hp. Those tanks also used a version of a Lycoming radial airplane engine.
Ford Dual Engine is a impressive display of practical engineering under time constraints. Instead of developing a new engine, two are slapped together and made to be easily and quickly replaced with a fresh spare, while the broken engine can be repaired in a workshop. While it is not a war machine per say, it is a machine of war times.
The original SceniCruiser Busses had two 4cy Detroit Diesels to use one on hwy and two getting up to speed. They were later replaced by a single 8V71 as the 4cyl was underpowered at cruise speed anyway.
Haha! Yeah I was already wondering if it was a real human speaking when I started watching the video, but that definitely verified it. I don’t know why it bugs me so much but it does.
Euclid's demise is similar to what we see happen to any number of companies. The owners/engineers create a solid company, but see that they are reaching a point in their lives when they want to retire. They find a buyer and cash out. The trouble is, the innovative engineers are the guys that left. GM loosing the anti-trust case and needing to divest didn't help either.
