Ransomes & Rapier Electric Runabout Crane

Ransomes & Rapier Electric Runabout Crane in The Balance, Documentary, 1947

Class: Others, Ground conveyor — Model origin:

00:08:26 Background vehicle

Author	Message
dsl ◊ 2014-08-31 04:02	Can't read rear script - it looks a bit like it ends with something like ...ONTS.. so it's not eg Lansing Bagnall or Coventry Climax.
mike962 ◊ 2014-08-31 10:50	it's more of GROUND CONVEYOR, carrying only small boxes rather than construction category in essence an early forklift -- Last edit: 2014-08-31 10:51:17
mike962 ◊ 2014-08-31 10:56	unless JCB has other idea I think this is one of the early RAPIER , they specialised in this things https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6024/6203145423_70331176a2_z.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5129/5377589404_995e8846cc.jpg
jcb ◊ 2014-09-01 14:36	I don't know what make this is , could be one of a few . This is definetly a crane in principle. -- Last edit: 2014-09-01 14:37:02
jcb ◊ 2014-09-05 19:44	Fairly certain now this is a Ransomes and Rapier , could the letters be Ransomes
dsl ◊ 2014-09-05 21:21	JCB wrote could the letters be Ransomes Well possible, but with Ransomes as second word not first.
mike962 ◊ 2014-09-05 21:31	maybe text was just operator of machine, not producer either way think can be named -- Last edit: 2014-09-05 21:32:02
mike962 ◊ 2015-08-01 21:53	JCB wrote Fairly certain now this is a Ransomes and Rapier , could the letters be Ransomes is this our machine ?