250bhp moved giant loads
3rd January 1981, Page 11
3rd January 1981
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THE ONLY Rotinoff Atlantic tractor remaining in Britain is in the Science Museum's commercial vehicle collection at Wroughtot Airfield, near Swindon, I:)■, Courtesy of Sunter Bros Ltd. Th( company bought it in 1957 tc haul 12 heat exchangers, eacf 92 ft long and 22 ft Gin in diame ter and weighing 235 tons, on two-mile journey to Bradwel power station. After that it di( many other jobs.
Operators accustomed t( modern high engine powers ii general haulage vehicles may bi surprised to know that a Rolls Royce 250bhp engine was suffi cient to move these great load and that the tractor continued b do so for 17 years. Sunter Bros have generously overhauled am repainted it as it was when i retired in 1974.