Prototypes of the original 40-ton design, the Centurion Mark I, had 76 mm of armour in the front glacis, thinner than the then current infantry tank designs such as the Churchill which had 101 mm, but the glacis plate was highly sloped and so the effective thickness of the armour was very high — a design feature shared by other effective designs such as the German Panther tank and Soviet T-34.

One of them enabled the crew to dive over a mile into the San Diego trench, where the carcass of a 40-ton gray whale had been placed to attract a large variety of scavengers.

The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton boulder, originally located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at Berkley, Massachusetts ( formerly part of the town of Dighton ).

The lock at Lea Bridge was removed, and replaced by Old Ford Lock further to the south, which was built to take 100-ton barges, rather than the 40-ton barges specified by an Act of 1805.

The band and crew were on the stage when without warning the 40-ton roof fell.

The original specification had been set so that the A41 could be carried on the existing Mark I and Mark II transport trailers, which were limited to a 40-ton load.

The band and crew were on the stage when without warning the 40-ton roof fell.

Notable works in the collection include the famous Megiddo Ivories ; various treasures from Persepolis, the old Persian capital ; a collection of Luristan Bronzes ; a colossal 40-ton human-headed winged bull ( or Lamassu ) from Khorsabad, the capital of Sargon II ; and a monumental statue of King Tutankhamun.

Pullman built the boats in 40-ton blocks.

Even before prototypes of the original 40-ton design were completed, the design of a heavier version was well under way.

In the summer of 1961, after a period of design and fabrication, a 73-foot, 40-ton, upper-cabin sternwheel steamboat made its way from Dubuque, Iowa to New Salem by way of the Mississippi River, Illinois River, and the Sangamon River.

Some of the more memorable flights during the post-war period included the airdrop and test firing of a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile and the delivery of a 40-ton superconducting magnet to Moscow during the Cold War, for which the crew received the Mackay Trophy.

Burt also commissioned a 40-ton limestone Globe, three metres in diameter, engraved with an 1880s world map.

Several aspects of the Chieftain design were trialled by the production of the FV4202 " 40-ton Centurion " with a reclined driver position and mantleless gun mounting.

Atatürk's tomb is situated right under the symbolic 40-ton sarcophagus in the ground floor of The Hall of Honor, and Atatürk's corpse is buried below this in a special Tomb Room in the basement level.

Part blimp, part helicopter, the SkyHook JHL-40 aircraft is capable of transporting a 40-ton sling load up to 200 miles.

Professional grass-cutting equipment ( used by large establishments such as universities, sports stadiums and local authorities ) usually take the form of much larger, dedicated, ride-on platforms or attachments that can be mounted on, or behind, a standard tractor unit ( a " gang-mower ").

Soon after, seven vehicles were introduced ( six were numbered 22 a through f ) including a sports car, a sports coupe, a truck, a delivery van, a farm tractor, and a tank.

They are used for competition and popular sports entertainment and in some cases they are featured alongside motocross races, mud bogging, tractor pulls and car-eating robots.

A very early, hand-built gasoline powered tractor

The classic farm tractor is a simple open vehicle, with two very large driving wheels on an axle below and slightly behind a single seat ( the seat and steering wheel consequently are in the center ), and the engine in front of the driver, with two steerable wheels below the engine compartment.

Drawbars were appropriate to the dawn of mechanization, because they were very simple in concept and because as the tractor replaced the horse, existing horse-drawn implements usually already had running gear.

His methods remained very traditional ; the only innovations he added were using a tractor to mix the cob itself, and adding sand or shillet ( a gravel of crushed shale ) to reduce the shrinkage.

In 1947 the very popular 8N tractor was introduced.

They generally consist of, at the very least, a diesel grade fueling station with bays wide and tall enough for modern tractor / trailer rigs, plus a large enough parking area to accommodate from five to over a hundred trucks and other heavy vehicles.

They are not very old at all when their mother goes careering up into the air to her sudden death, flipping into the back of a tractor as she tries to release a stray teddy-bear, a gift for her children, from beneath the clutch of her soon-to-be destroyed little car.

To benefit from the reputation of the later models in the used tractor market, the 23HP TE-20 is often advertised simply as TE-20, only very rarely is it referred to in Australia as a “ Ferguson 23 ”.

In its heyday, 20, 000 people were employed there-the plant was very negatively affected by the break up of the Soviet Union and post Soviet economic problems-its workforce was reduced to ~ 1000 by 2005, and tractor production ceased in 2003.

After college, he decided he would build the very first gasoline powered tractor to go both forward and reverse.

The large trailers pulled by a tractor unit come in many styles, lengths, and shapes.

A large farm tractor driving by then stops to help, but fortunately this time the problem was evidently just a few drops of bad gas, because the lawn-tractor's engine sputters to life again after sitting for a few minutes.

In some fictional realities, shields can block tractor beams, or the generators can be disabled by sending a large amount of energy back up the beam to its source.

This means that if a small spaceship applies a tractor beam to a large object such as a planet, the ship will be drawn towards the planet, rather than vice versa.

" Fixed CT Scanners " can also be mounted inside large tractor trailers and driven from site to site and are known as " Mobile CT Scanners ".

Henry Ford helped build a large truck and tractor plant ( GAZ ) in the late 1920s, sending along engineers and mechanics, including future labour leader Walter Reuther.

The new tractor crossed the Unimog technology of all-wheel drive and a power transmission to four large equal-sized wheels, with the appearance of a tractor: slim hood, behind it an angular, highly rising driver cab.

There is a softball tournament, street festival, bands and entertainers, and a large tractor show.

Activities include the Miss River Raisin Contest, carnival rides and games, arts and crafts vendors, a large variety of food, a softball tournament, a car show, tractor pulls, and a beer tent.

There is an express McDonalds, one small grocery, county shared medical clinics open on select weekdays, daily ambulance services, two medical pharmacies, a florist, a bank, a mortuary, farm supply and home repair store, several gas stations, several automobile and one large tractor trailer garages.

It was an annual event held on the first weekend in August, the event would bring large crowds to Shelby for the old tractor and machinery displays, demonstrations, and a parade.

The reasons were varied, but they included the globalization of industry, obsolete facilities and the replacement of railroad shipping by trucking, which could not run its large tractor trailer trucks on Edgewater's narrow streets.

A large, modern John Deere model 9400 four-wheel drive tractor with tripled wheels and a drawbar-towed tool chain, including one-pass tillage equipment, planter and fertilizer applicator with tanks

This era was probably the peak of White Motor market penetration, with the substantial gasoline engined tractors moving a large part of the tractor trailer market.

As early as 1926 various German companies, including Rheinmetall and Daimler-Benz, produced a single prototype armed with a large 75-millimeter cannon ( the Großtraktor, " large tractor ", was so codenamed to veil the true purpose of the vehicle ).

The US tractor industry both farm and industrial relied on large four-cylinder power units until the early 1960s, when six-cylinder designs came into favor.

Later the two firms would be drawn together and a large number of complicated take-overs by such firms as British Leyland led to the wheeled tractor concern being owned by Bentall Simplex in the early 80s.

In North America, Australia, northwestern Europe, and frequently in New Zealand, silage is placed in large heaps on the ground and rolled by tractor to push out the air, then wrapped in plastic covers held down by reused tires or tire ring walls.

The last is a familiar sight being hauled by tractor in large open-top trailers to York, where it is used by firms such as Nestle and British Sugar.

Today, the pioneer manufacturers have been replaced mostly by large tractor companies such as John Deere, New Holland, Kubota, Case, Caterpillar Inc., CLAAS.

* Zhengzhou Unique Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd., a large tractor and agricultural equipment manufacturer.