Comments for A new whatziss!

A new whatziss!

2009-04-28T13:13:45Z

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.

Comment from Josh on 2009-04-30

2009-04-30T21:51:59Z

I think Bill forgot about this.

Comment from Josh on 2009-04-29

2009-04-29T16:08:15Z

Late 18th century motorhome.

Comment from Grimmy on 2009-04-28

2009-04-29T04:32:37Z

That is a Cathouse brand mobile entertainment facility made by Bordello Inc.

Comment from Rod Thorsen on 2009-04-28

2009-04-29T02:47:57Z

Mobile hamster powered TOC. The data written on the side specifies type, number, and age of approved hamsters.

Comment from H Huffman on 2009-04-28

2009-04-29T00:19:18Z

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.

Comment from RetRsvMike on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T23:14:46Z

mobile decon station (and if that ain't what it is, that's at least what I would use it for!)

Comment from JimC on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T21:39:25Z

Mobile gas chamber

Comment from Argent on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T21:27:22Z

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.

Comment from Lou Mazz on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T19:14:01Z

Didn't FEMA send these to New Orleans?

Comment from Charlie Hutcheson on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T18:59:40Z

power unit horse's on treadmill inside powering belt outside

Comment from Charlie Hutcheson on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T18:57:36Z

auxilary power unit ,Horse's inside powering the belts by treadmills.

Comment from Terrapod on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T18:29:09Z

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?

Comment from Heartless Libertarian on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T18:28:37Z

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.

Comment from Chuck Simmins on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T17:44:43Z

Belt drive for something at outer walls

Comment from Old Gaijiin on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T16:40:10Z

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.

Comment from XBradTC on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T16:26:37Z

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.

Comment from H Huffman on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T16:22:45Z

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.

Comment from Kevin on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T15:48:12Z

French or Italian mobile 'health and comfort' wagon. Gotta keep them front line troops happy and raise their... morale.

Comment from Sean Maloney on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T15:37:51Z

Some kind of mobile workshop with power tools driven by belts?

Comment from Slinky on 2009-04-28

2009-04-28T15:35:50Z

I've seen something like this before, is it mobile shelter/camoflage for an artillary piece?