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The car is powered by two modified JCB 444 diesel power plants using a two-stage turbocharger to generate 750 bhp (560 kW), one engine driving the front wheels and the other the rear wheels. On 22 August 2006 the Dieselmax, driven by Andy Green , broke the diesel engine land speed record, attaining a speed of 328.767 mph (529.099 km/h).
JCB (heavy equipment manufacturer), a British manufacturer of heavy industrial and agricultural vehicles JCB (callsign JAYSEEBEE; ICAO airline code JCB); see List of airline codes (J) JCB (credit card company), originally Japan Credit Bureau, a credit card company based in Tokyo, Japan; JCB (wine label), a wine label by vinter Jean-Charles Boisset
A backhoe [a] is a type of excavating equipment, or excavator, consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. It is typically mounted on the back of a tractor or front loader, the latter forming a "backhoe loader" (a US term, but known as a "JCB" in Ireland and the UK). [1]
Backhoe Loader Cat 420E A JCB 3CX backhoe loader A JCB backhoe loader performing work in India. A backhoe loader, also called a loader backhoe, loader excavator, tractor excavator, [1] digger or colloquially shortened to backhoe within the industry, is a heavy equipment vehicle that consists of a tractor-like unit fitted with a loader-style shovel/bucket on the front and a backhoe on the back.
A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in some civil law systems, [1] usually called simply a carrier) [2] is a person or company that transports goods or people for any person or company and is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport.
The Westcoaster Mailster was a small three-wheeled vehicle used for mail delivery by the United States Post Office Department during the 1950s and 60s. They could haul 500 pounds of mail, including large parcels, versus the 35-pound limit of a foot carrier, and once represented one-third of the delivery vehicles used by the Post Office.
Vincent Raymond Sombrotto (June 15, 1923 – January 10, 2013) was a letter carrier at Grand Central Station in New York City, and the 16th president of the National Association of Letter Carriers between 1978 and 2002. [1] He was born in Manhattan in 1923 to an Italian father and an Irish mother.
On the smaller bulk carriers, one or two four-stroke diesels are used to turn either a fixed or controllable-pitch propeller via a reduction gearbox, which may also incorporate an output for an alternator. [4] The average design ship speed for bulk carriers of Handysize and above is 13.5–15 knots (25.0–27.8 km/h; 15.5–17.3 mph). [23]