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A new whatziss!

By The Armorer on April 28, 2009 | | Comments (20)
Here it is.  Complete.  Not just a little snippet of a larger photograph and all the other little ways I like to torture you.  This is a Tuttle-Style® Whatziss.

Okay, smarty-pants - Whatziss?

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By Slinky on April 28, 2009 10:35 AM
I've seen something like this before, is it mobile shelter/camoflage for an artillary piece? 
 
By Sean Maloney on April 28, 2009 10:37 AM
 Some kind of mobile workshop with power tools driven by belts? 
 
By Kevin on April 28, 2009 10:48 AM
French or Italian mobile 'health and comfort' wagon.  Gotta keep them front line troops happy and raise their... morale.
 
By H Huffman on April 28, 2009 11:22 AM
Could it be a mobile laundry system?  Two trailers, connected by tarps and the old fashioned belt to provide torque for the equipment inside, washers on one side, spin dryers on the other?  Centrifuge type spinners could get most of the water out of the clothes to speed drying.  Otherwise, not a clue.
 
By XBradTC on April 28, 2009 11:26 AM
I'm leaning towards Mr.  Huffman's mobile laundry (tho perhaps showers). You can see hollow pipes under the sides that might be discharge pipes from the interior.
 
By Old Gaijiin on April 28, 2009 11:40 AM
Hell , that there is one of them old Signal Corps mobile pigeon coops.  Or an old Quartermasters mobile chicken coop. For the birds any way you look at it.
 
By Chuck Simmins on April 28, 2009 12:44 PM
Belt drive for something at outer walls
 
By Heartless Libertarian on April 28, 2009 1:28 PM

But where does the input power to drive that belt thing come from?

Looking at the wheels, along with the belt drive, says late 19th, early 20th century to me, my guess being WWI.

No idea as to function, though.

 
By Terrapod on April 28, 2009 1:29 PM
Hore drawn era.  4 carts, one quarter of a mobile unit per cart, no visible power to make those belts move so the power  source must be inside. Very odd doorway, almost as if the water was to be inside.  - how about mobile bath house/laundry?
 
By Charlie Hutcheson on April 28, 2009 1:57 PM
auxilary power unit ,Horse's inside powering the belts by treadmills.
 
By Charlie Hutcheson on April 28, 2009 1:59 PM
power unit horse's on treadmill inside powering belt outside
 
By Lou Mazz on April 28, 2009 2:14 PM
 Didn't FEMA send these to New Orleans?
 
By Argent on April 28, 2009 4:27 PM
I would say a workshop, possibly for wood.  I think laundry is possible but not bathhouse.  If it's Tuttle-style it must have TINS.
 
By JimC on April 28, 2009 4:39 PM
Mobile gas chamber
 
By RetRsvMike on April 28, 2009 6:14 PM
mobile decon station (and if that ain't what it is, that's at least what I would use it for!)
 
By H Huffman on April 28, 2009 7:19 PM
Update to my prior comment.  My father used to work on steam threshers back in the old days and it had belts similiar to this setup.  A small steam engine would not only power the belts if attached to the system via a screw type of rod at the other end of building and then the steam engine could provide hot water for the washers.  A metal rod would run  from one pulley wheel to the far end pulley wheel to keep the far end working.  Just an idea.  Most likely wrong, but sounds feasible.
 
By Rod Thorsen on April 28, 2009 9:47 PM
Mobile hamster powered TOC.  The data written on the side specifies type, number, and age of approved hamsters.
 
By Grimmy on April 28, 2009 11:32 PM
That is a Cathouse brand mobile entertainment facility made by Bordello Inc.
 
By Josh on April 29, 2009 11:08 AM
Late 18th century motorhome.
 
By Josh on April 30, 2009 4:51 PM
I think Bill forgot about this.