Crawler Tractors
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Crawler Tractors
When a crawler tractor, on tracks, moves over the ground, the "plates" on the tracks that are ON THE GROUND?
do not move until the back sprocket picks them up, one by one. If the bottom plates of the track are not moving in relation to the ground or in relation to the tractor, are the "plates" on top of the track moving twice as fast as the tractor?
The links on top (when traveling horizontally) do indeed move twice as fast on average as the vehicle. This has nothing to do with the size of the sprockets or the shape of the the track.
The way to see this is to sit in the tractor. If the drive sprockets are moving the tractor at 10 mph, the tractor is static in your frame of reference, the bottom of the track is moving back at 10mph and the top is moving forward at 10mph. All the track is firmly bolted together, it all has to go around at the same speed. Now, standing on the ground and watching, the bottom links look static, the top is moving at the 10mph you saw while in the tractor plus the 10mph the vehicle moves.
I said average speed in the first paragraph because the tracks are literally links of chain, thus, have minor changes in speed as each link goes on the drive sprocket because the sprocket is not quite round. This is called chordal action.
Similar to the tracked vehicle, on a wheeled vehicle, the road contact point is also static, and the exact top of the wheel also moves twice as fast as the vehicle. The axle moves at the vehicle speed.
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Crawler Tractors
Lesney Products by jekky
History
Lesney was founded in 1947 as an industrial die-casting company by Leslie Smith (March 6, 1918 - May 26, 2005) and Rodney Smith. The two men were not related by blood; they had been school friends and served together in the Royal Navy during World War II. Shortly after they founded the company, Rodney Smith introduced to his partner a man named John "Jack" Odell, an engineer he had met in a previous job at D.C.M.T. (another die-casting company). Mr. Odell initially rented a space in the Lesney building to make his own die-casting products, but he joined the company as a partner in that same year.
A Lesney Matchbox truck box
Lesney originally started operations in a derelict pub in north London (The Rifleman), but later, as finances allowed, changed several location times before finally moving to a factory in Hackney which became synonymous with the company. In late 1947 they received a request for parts to a toy gun. As that proved to be a viable alternative to reducing their factory's output during periods in which they received fewer or smaller industrial orders, they started to make die cast model toys in the next year. However, seeing no future for the company, Rodney Smith left the company in 1951.
Yet, seen in hindsight, the first model toy they produced in 1948 a die-cast road roller based clearly on a Dinky model (the industry leader in die-cast toy cars at that time) proved also to be the first of perhaps three major milestones on the path to their eventual destiny. It established transportation as a viable and interesting theme; other similar models followed, including a cowboy-influenced covered wagon and a soap-box racer. Of course, the company continued to produce non-toy items; of those marketed directly by Lesney, one of the more popular ones was a bread-bait press, well-liked by British anglers at the time.
The next crucial milestone was the production of a replica of the Royal State Coach in 1953, the year of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Two versions were created, the first in a larger scale, followed by a smaller-scale model. It was this second model that sold over a million units, a massive success at the time. The profits from the sales provided valuable capital for further investments.
The final and decisive stepping stone in the pre-Matchbox era was a toy which Mr. Odell designed for his daughter: Her school only allowed children to bring toys that could fit inside a matchbox, so Mr. Odell crafted a scaled-down version of the Lesney green and red road roller. Based on the aforementioned size restriction, the idea was born to sell the model in a replica matchbox thus also yielding the name of the series which would propel Lesney to worldwide, mass-market success. The road roller ultimately became the first of the Matchbox 1-75 miniature range; a dump truck and a cement mixer completed the original three-model release.
In the early years of the series, Lesney used a partner company, "Moko" (itself also named after its founder, Moses Kohnstam), to market/distribute its toys. This distribution was documented on the boxes themselves, on which the text "A Moko Lesney product" appeared. However, by the end of the decade, Lesney was able to buy Moko, marketing its products under its own name from that point on. A period of great expansion, tremendous profit, and recognition followed: In 1966, Lesney received their first (of several) Queen's Awards for Industry. By the mid-'60s, Matchbox was the largest brand of die-cast model vehicles in the world, and had diversified the line into multiple series. For further details on the history of the Matchbox series, see the article Matchbox (toy).
A Matchbox VW Bus
On July 11, 1982, after years of difficulties due to the economic climate in Britain at the time, Lesney went bankrupt and into receivership. Competing companies Mettoy (Corgi) and Meccano (Dinky) also suffered the same fate. The Matchbox brand as well as Lesney's tooling were bought by and became a division of Universal Holdings/Universal Toys, where the company re-formed as "Matchbox International Ltd." Tooling and production were moved to Macau. Jack Odell went on to form a new company, Lledo, where he produced models similar to early Matchbox Models of Yesteryear. Today, the Matchbox brand is owned by Mattel, creators of Hot Wheels.
Some of the tools and dies created in the Lesney era are still used in the Matchbox line as of 2007.
Non-Matchbox Lesney toys
Although the name Lesney became synonymous with Matchbox, the company produced several toys previous to and into the Matchbox era which were not sold under that famous moniker. Today, these are highly collectible items. They include:
Road Roller (1947), later scaled down to become Matchbox no. 1*
Cement Mixer (1948), later scaled down to become Matchbox no. 3*
Caterpillar Crawler (1948), later scaled down to become Matchbox no. 8
Caterpillar Bulldozer (1948), later scaled down to become Matchbox no. 18
Milk Float (1949), later scaled down to become Matchbox no. 7; this was the 1st toy made in Lesney's second factory at Barratts Grove
Soap-Box Racer (1949)
Rag & Bone Cart (1949)
Prime Mover & Trailer (1950), used in different scales later as Matchbox 1-75 and Major Pack models
Jumbo the Elephant (1950), a clockwork toy (marketed by Moko)
Muffin the Mule (1951), a puppet animal based on a TV show (marketed by Moko)
large Royal State Coach (1951 & 1952); the 1st version included figures of king and queen; the horses were cast by competing company Benbros
small Royal State Coach [Coronation Coach] (1953), first big seller, provided capital for further ventures
Massey-Harris Tractor (1954), perhaps the finest Lesney toy, later scaled down to become Matchbox no. 4
Conestoga Covered Wagon (1954)
* The first release under the Matchbox name included three models, two of which (nos. 1 and 3) were based on larger Lesney toys as described above. The third model, the no. 2 Dump Truck, was actually a scaled-down version of a competitor's model, the original having been manufactured by Condon Products Ltd.
See also
Matchbox (toy), for details of the history of the Matchbox series
Meccano Ltd
Mattel
External links
BAMCA, the Bay Area Matchbox Collectors Association - a site with comprehensive listings of Lesney products, including detailed product information and photographs
Photos of non-Matchbox Lesney toys as well as of Matchbox and competitors' models, and of the Lesney factory in Hackney
History of Lesney and of Matchbox Models of Yesteryear
www.70's-matchbox.de - Extensive matchbox collection of the 70's epoch
Lesney Industries still die-casting in Hackney
Great site on the 'Models of Yesteryear' range
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