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

Flashing lights with pilot cars and motorcyclist escort, the road belongs to the Convois Exceptionnels. This book tells the daily life of yesterday and today of French land transport outside the norm, produced by a fan of big trucks, solid trailers and heavy cranes who is also a regional historian, writer and press correspondent.
Preliminary studies, authorizations and traffic conditions, equipment necessary for the transport of indivisible masses are explained and described in these pages illustrated with more than three hundred photographs and drawings.

Readers will find the convoys of yesteryear that contributed to the Trente Glorieuses, the tractors, pullers, pushers, of the 21st century whose power continues to grow in order to transport planes, boats, locomotives, gigantic public works machines, steam generators weighing three or four hundred tons intended for nuclear power plants, but also the wheeled cranes with enormous booms designed to assemble wind turbines over a hundred meters high and load particularly heavy "packages".
Several chapters present the large special transport companies, the manufacturers of trucks and trailers. The tow trucks have not been forgotten in the saga of these transports where men and materials are exceptional.

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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

Die 1980er and 1990er Jahre waren eine Zeit der legendären Schwertransporttechnik and der schweren Lasten. Die jeweils als Unikat angefertigten Schwerlastzugmaschinen waren beeindruckend and die Transporte selbst eine Herausforderung für die Fahrer and die Speditionsunternehmen.

Thorge Clever nimmt die Leserinnen and Leser mit auf eine Reise in die Vergangenheit. Er zeigt, wie die Schwertransporte in diesen Jahrzehnten durchgeführt wurden - mit beeindruckenden Fotografien der Zugmaschinen and der Transporttechnik, fernab der heutigen Massenware.

Aus dem Inhalt: AKV, Alborn, Baum, Bohnet, Bracht, Franke, Goll, Grundt, Karl, Krause, Kronschnabel, Kübler, Lastra, Mammoet, Sauter, Schindler, Schmidbauer, Scholpp, Schütz, Siefert, Toense, Tschudy, Universal, Wirzius, Zwagermann and andere.

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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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