K-4 cart

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Pintle type wire wagon, model 1910

The K-4 cart is a 2-wheel strongly constructed signal cart similar to artillery caissons, but equipped for carrying signal equipment; used with the Wire cart, type K-3, to form the wagon formerly called "Pintle wire wagon, M1910". [1]

Artillery class of weapons which fires munitions beyond the range and power of personal weapons

Artillery is a class of heavy military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls, and fortifications during sieges, and led to heavy, fairly immobile siege engines. As technology improved, lighter, more mobile field artillery cannons developed for battlefield use. This development continues today; modern self-propelled artillery vehicles are highly mobile weapons of great versatility providing the large share of an army's total firepower.

The image from Electrical instruments and telephones of the US Signal Corps 1911 2) is accompanied by the following text: "In the latest model the front element of the vehicle carries the reel and wire and is known as the reel cart. The rear element, known as the signal cart, is a chest of compartments suitable for carrying the buzzers, batteries, flags, field glasses and other equipment used by field companies of the Signal Corps. The rear signal cart may be detached from the reel cart and the former used alone in laying and recovering wire. The pintle type wagon is drawn by four horses. The signal cart chest can be moved forward and backward to adjust weight on the horses' necks". [2]

Telephone telecommunications device

A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user.

Vehicle Mobile machine that transports people, animals or cargo

A vehicle is a machine that transports people or cargo. Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles, railed vehicles, watercraft, amphibious vehicles, aircraft and spacecraft.

Cart vehicle with two wheels

A cart is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people. It is different from a dray or wagon, which is a heavy transport vehicle with four wheels and typically two or more horses, or a carriage, which is used exclusively for transporting humans.

See also

K-1 cart

The K-1 cart is a wire cart type K-1. It comprises a 2-wheel reel cart used for the rapid laying and recovering of telephone and telegraph lines in the field. It is completely equipped with a reel, mechanically rotated and controlled, 1 chest with wire-laying equipment, a driver's seat, and appropriate parts and fittings specially designed and used for only on this cart; designed to carry 5 miles of wire, type W-39. It was formerly known as "Wire reel cart, type N".

K-3 cart

The K-3 cart is a 2-wheel, strongly constructed wire cart, similar to artillery caissons, but equipped for carrying and reeling out wire; used together with Signal cart, type K-4, to form the wagon formerly called "Pintle wire wagon, model 1910."

K-5 truck

The K-5 truck is a light automobile truck with a 10 feet 4 inches (3.15 m) wheelbase, standard automobile gauge, and 35 in (89 cm) wheels; length from front of radiator to rear of body 15 feet (4.57 m); equipped with single top; formerly marked with the Signal Corps emblem and the words "Signal Corps, U.S. Army" and also with the name "Maintenance truck No.5" or "Tender for radio tractor No.3".

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A limber is a two-wheeled cart designed to support the trail of an artillery piece, or the stock of a field carriage such as a caisson or traveling forge, allowing it to be towed. The trail is the hinder end of the stock of a gun-carriage, which rests or slides on the ground when the carriage is unlimbered.

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The K-38 splicer's trailer was used in World War II for carrying telephone cable splicers tools in the field.

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K-2 Lance wagon

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The K-8 cart is a 2-wheel horse drawn cart, designed for transporting in the field a large assortment of signaling equipment in the field; the cart's gauge is 5 ft 2 in; the wheel rims 2½ in wide and the wheel diameters are 5 ft; the body of the cart consists of a large chest surmounted by a driver's seat; the chest is 44 in wide by 27 ft high by 5 ft 4 in long and is mounted upon commercial wagon springs; the interior is equipped with partitions suitable arranged for separating and holding rigidly in place the parts of equipment, type SE-6.

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References

  1. ↑ Storage catalogue. Signal Corps, Government Printing Office, 1920, Washington
  2. ↑ Electrical instruments and telephones of the US Signal Corps (1911)]
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