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Belly Tank Scooter

Jeff Glasser has just forwarded this link. Can anyone confirm the identity of the location?

http://imageevent.com/okbueno/mopic?p=41&n=1&m=-1&c=10&l=0&w=4&s=0&z=2

I hope that it works?

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By: nibb100 - 4th November 2013 at 20:31

Ha ha !!!
Brilliantly amazing conception for 1944 and well built. Good bit of film work too. Wonder what ever happened to it. I thought the location was somewhere in UK, but as they are driving on the right , USA/ Europe somewhere ? Nice archive find from Jeff.

Bill T.

I think they drive on the right on US bases in the UK

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By: pogno - 4th November 2013 at 20:23

Can anyone confirm the identity of the location?

The caption says ‘CBI Jan 1944’ which could refer to ‘China Burma India’. Narrows it down a bit perhaps.

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By: Stepwilk - 4th November 2013 at 15:05

Presages the fact that after the war, many belly tanks were turned into “lakesters”–very fast straight-line-speed record cars driven on the dry lakes of California and Nevada (Bonneville being the best-known one). Rather than a single-cylinder APU engine like this one, they were typically powered by Ford flathead V8s, later by big ohv engines. I did an article on them some years ago for Air & Space Smithsonian.

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By: WV-903. - 4th November 2013 at 13:54

Ha ha !!!
Brilliantly amazing conception for 1944 and well built. Good bit of film work too. Wonder what ever happened to it. I thought the location was somewhere in UK, but as they are driving on the right , USA/ Europe somewhere ? Nice archive find from Jeff.

Bill T.

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