Convois exceptionnels : livres - véhicules et histoire (2/3)

Convois exceptionnels, les monstres de la route (2e édition)

Gyrophares allumés avec voitures pilote et escorte de motards, la route appartient aux Convois Exceptionnels. C'est le quotidien d'hier et d'aujourd'hui des transports terrestres hors normes français, que raconte cet ouvrage réalisé par un passionné de gros camions, solides remorques et lourdes grues qui est aussi historien régional, écrivain et correspondant de presse.
Etudes préalables, autorisations et conditions de circulation, matériels nécessaires au transport de masses indivisibles sont expliqués et décrits dans ces pages illustrées de plus trois cents photographies et dessins.

Les lecteurs retrouveront les convois d'antan qui apportèrent leur contribution aux Trente glorieuses, les tracteurs, tireurs pousseurs, du XXIe siècle dont la puissance ne cesse de croître afin de transporter des avions, des bateaux, des locomotives, de gigantesques engins de travaux publics, des générateurs de vapeur d'une masse de trois ou quatre cents tonnes destinés aux centrales nucléaires, mais également les grues à roues aux flèches démesurées conçues pour assembler des éoliennes hautes de plus de cent mètres et charger des " colis " particulièrement lourds.
Plusieurs chapitres présentent les grandes sociétés de transports spéciaux, les constructeurs de camions et remorques. Les dépanneuses n'ont pas été oubliées dans la saga de ces transports où hommes et matériels sont exceptionnels.

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Schwertransporte - Bildarchiv (3)

Whenever the heavy-duty tractors, often with four or even five axles, set off with their enormous loads over the last three decades, the author was there. In his third volume, the author once again shows and explains the best pictures of the most exciting transports in his tried and tested manner.

From the contents:
- Friderici with 320t transformer
- Wirzius column transport
- Mammoet
- Van de Vlist with 220t in Saarland
- 150t lifting lever bridge from Vlist
- Juhl with Greiner boiler bridge
- Franke Schwerlast company
- Baum picture collection from Cologne
- Application examples from August Alborn Dortmund
- Voss boiler bridge history
- Schütz and his Titan tractors
- and much more...

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Schwerlast-Zugmaschinen unterwegs in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren

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Schwertransporte - Bildarchiv (2)

Wherever huge heavy transports are seen, crowds of people gather to watch the fascinating spectacle. The author, who also deals with heavy transports professionally, has been photographing these operations for more than 25 years.
In his second volume, he once again shows exciting transports from the eighties and nineties.

From the contents: Heavy Cargo, Kübler and Westfracht, carrying spouts from DWE, Max Goll, Fahrenholz, Fagioli, Delta Besenzoni, Siefert, Krause, Schindler, Scholpp, Schmidbauer, Pieper, Schütz, Brame.

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Schwertransporte - Bildarchiv (4)

For more than 30 years, Thorge Clever has been there with his camera whenever there is an exciting heavy transport operation. Over time, around 40 000 photographs have accumulated in his archive.

In his fourth volume, the author once again shows the best shots from spectacular operations, mainly from the 1980s and 1990s. Some of the heavy haulage companies that were popular at the time have since disappeared from the market.
Experience the fascinating spectacle of how high-horsepower tractors with their enormous loads are maneuvered through sharp bends and narrow towns.

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Schwertransporte - Bildarchiv (5)

This fifth and final volume of the picture archive series shows the transports of individual forwarding companies from 1980 to 2000. It is not just the transports that are exciting, but also the technology of the time.
In those pioneering days, it was a sensation if a tractor had 400 hp or a mobile crane had a lifting capacity of 500 t. Such achievements only slowly found their way to the public at the time.

Thorge Clever shows and comments on heavy transports by the following companies: Alborn Dortmund, Baum Cologne, Breuer Hürth, Franke Bremen, Grundt Berlin, Krause Trostberg, Lastra NL, Mammoet NL, Mayer Zweibrücken, Paule Stuttgart, Sauter Frankfurt am Main, Schindler Homburg, Van Seumeren NL and Westfracht Essen.

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