Katyusha rocket launchers were mounted on many platforms during World War II, including on trucks, artillery tractors, tanks, and armoured trains, as well as on naval and riverine vessels as assault support weapons, Soviet engineers also mounted single Katyusha rockets on lengths of railway track to serve in urban combat.

Conversely, " conventional " cab tractors offer the driver a more comfortable driving environment and better protection in a collision as well as eliminating the need to empty the driver's personal effects from the tractor whenever the engine requires service.

The most common of these was the Dodge 50 series, widely used by utility companies and the military, but rarely seen outside the UK, and the Spanish-built heavy-duty 300 series available as 4x2, 6x4, 8x2, and 8x4 rigids, as well as 4x2 semi-trailer tractors.

This event is used to showcase the history of the town as well as show off music, hot rods, old tractors, old buggies made by the Tyson Buggy Company, and crafts from potteries in the surrounding areas.

The line was very diverse, including many trucks / lorries, buses, tractors, motorcycles, and trailers as well as standard passenger cars.

The full-floating design is typically used in most 3 / 4 and 1-ton light trucks, medium duty trucks and heavy-duty trucks, as well as most agricultural applications, such as large tractors and combines.

The company even designed and built some totally new tractors but unfortunately due to the high costs and consequently high asking price, the tractors didn't sell well and the company slipped under.

The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, are performed in English and have themes such as vodka, tractors, rockets, and Genghis Khan, as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Modern Talking, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all presented with lots of humour.

BMC was the largest British car company of its day, with ( in 1952 ) 39 percent of British output, producing a wide range of cars under brand names including Austin, Morris, MG, Austin-Healey and Wolseley as well as commercial vehicles and agricultural tractors.

Beaune is the center for wine industry services ( such as tractors and equipment for vat-rooms ) as well as a number of wine-related institutes and education facilities.

Eventually such engines were rendered obsolete by the development of a universal power take off ( PTO ) system on tractors, which could drive stationary equipment as well as mounted implements with much higher outputs than the average small stationary engines.

Production continued well into the early part of the 20th century, when competition from internal combustion engine – powered tractors saw them fall out of favour, although some continued in commercial use in the UK into the 1950s and later.

The town is home to the country's largest one-day annual agricultural show, as well as the Driffield Steam and Vintage Rally-an event showcasing historical vehicles including traction engines, fairground organs, tractors and vintage cars.

These tractors are very well known throughout the former Soviet Union, and have been exported to the Eastern Bloc, as well as other countries ( even to the United States ).

" In the days of simple engines in automobiles and farm tractors it was not uncommon for anyone having access to a condensate well to fill his tank with ' drip ,'" according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.

The club uses both tractors as recruiting tools not only for the organization, but for the school as well.

Through the 1930s, Komatsu also produced military tractors for the Japanese military, as well as bulldozers, tanks and howitzers.

This frame would be used for the rest of the International built Cub Cadet garden tractors as well as until recently, MTD built Cub Cadet garden tractors.

They are well received as a show of strength between farmers who believe that their oxen, horses or tractors are the strongest in terms of pulling weight.

Sterling built class 8 tractors, as well as a range of medium and heavy duty cab / chassis vehicles.

Deutz once also produced agricultural machines like combines and tractors as well as commercial vehicles such as lorries and buses.

A rubber disc would be secured to the top of the stamping to provide traction for the record, as well as a small amount of vibration isolation.

Conventional buses can divert around major blockages as well, as can most modern trolleybuses that are fitted with auxiliary engines or traction batteries.

The vehicles have wheels with rubber tyres which run on rolling pads inside guide bars for traction, as well as traditional railway steel wheels with deep flanges on steel tracks for guidance through conventional switches as well as guidance in case a tyre fails.

Additionally there are pylons that transmit both electric power for railway traction current as well as three-phase alternating current for the public power grid.

Adjustable speed motor control inverters are currently used to power the traction motors in some electric and diesel-electric rail vehicles as well as some battery electric vehicles and hybrid electric highway vehicles such as the Toyota Prius, BYD e6 and Fisker Karma.

As well as a lightweight chassis and bodywork, Caterham Sevens achieve their very low mass through their lack of comfort and safety oriented features such as a fixed roof, doors, radio, air-conditioning, airbags, traction / stability control, ABS, satellite navigation or cruise control.

In addition to the available anti-lock brake system ( ABS ), a traction control system was optional as well.

Technically, they are notable for being the first Shinkansen sets to employ three-phase AC traction motors instead of direct current units, as well as new bolsterless bogies to reduce weight.

Needell says his highlight to date is " accidentally, ahem, ignoring the strict instructions Ferrari issued about not touching the traction control on their half million pound Enzo ..." He has also done this on Fifth Gear while reviewing the Bugatti Veyron as well as the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, joking that his finger slipped after showing viewers the letter from Mercedes-Benz requesting he leave the traction control on.

Maunsell was responsible for initial attempts at locomotive standardisation on the Southern, as well as overseeing the introduction of electric traction.

The front of an overtype steam wagon bears a close family resemblance to traction engines, and manufacturers who made both may well have been able to use some common parts.

The problems with the underlying system were well known within Apple, but as long as Taligent was still a going concern, it was difficult to gain any traction.

In exceptional cases concrete pylons are used also for 110kV-lines, as well as for the public grid or for the railway traction current grid.

* Button B,: Inflates the tires like balloons, giving them better traction ( similar to monster truck tires ), as well as allowing the Mach 5 to float on water.

Automatic Sports and VR-X ( as well as Verada ) models were now fitted with a 5-speed transmission ( with " tiptronic " and " TCL " traction control ), making Mitsubishi the first Australian manufacturer to go beyond the then common 4-speeds.

Hunslet had many engineering companies based in the district, such as John Fowler & Co. manufacturers of traction engines & steam rollers, the Hunslet Engine Company builders of locomotives ( including those used during the construction of the Channel Tunnel ), as well as engineering firms Kitson & Co., Manning Wardle and Hudswell Clarke.

Many 1965 cars had the battery relocated to the trunk, which was changed mid-year from complaints of fumes, and featured over-rider traction bars, relocated A-arms, as well as other modifications.

* Manchester Piccadilly and Llandudno via Warrington Bank Quay ( three-car set ), although this route regularly saw 15X units on it in the case of shortages, as well as Sprinters being the booked traction for some morning and evening services that started or terminated at Chester.

This can be done with more aggressive tread on tires as well as with help from traction control devices in drivetrain.

Previous experience with Sulzer's 12-cylinder twin parallel-bank dual-crank 12LDA28 engine had gone well, but the highest power available from Sulzer in this form was the 12LDA31 of see The Sulzer engine in diesel traction: A potted and incomplete history.

, news reports indicate that the Spaceport Colorado proposal is gaining traction with political interests at the State and Federal level as well as with industry participants.