Author Topic: Electric Tricycle (Read 6304 times)

Bullshott · « **on:** February 03, 2014, 12:48:23 AM »

For anyone wanting to build an Electro-trike for their IHMN companies (as specified in the vehicle list in the rulebook), this is what a real one would have looked like:

http://www.offgridquest.com/mobility/148-world-s-first-electric-car-brought-back-to-life

Lordblackwing · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2014, 12:54:17 AM »

Very cool!

oabee · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2014, 01:19:09 AM »

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Fascinating. Video here:

Sendak · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2014, 02:01:36 AM »

Something about its seems as workable but, in my fevered opinion, it warrants a few 'adjustments'. I'd make several for my mob recommending the updates below.

First, turn the contraption around, small wheel forward.

Give the beast a hand tiller.

Slap on a Lewis Gun with a pintle mount.*

Before you can say "Henry Ford", a horse-less chariots with a bit o' sting thrown in. If I can find some miniature monkeys I'd have a few as gunner's mates.

*
Sort of like RFC pilots trying to reload Lewis Guns and fly their kite.

Craig · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2014, 05:48:12 AM »

Given the reliability of the batteries of the time I would say that each turn there should be a chance of it making the broken Millennium Falcon noise and conking out...

lou passejaire · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2014, 09:59:14 AM »

Quote from: Craig on February 03, 2014, 05:48:12 AM

Given the reliability of the batteries of the time I would say that each turn there should be a chance of it making the broken Millennium Falcon noise and conking out...

i'm not sure about that , there were a lot of electric cars in the 1890's , the only problem was about autonomy ( 30 to 50 km and the weight of the batteries ) ... ( see : http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/21/editorial.php ( en ) and http://www.voiture-electrique-populaire.fr/vehicule/histoire?ModPagespeed=noscript (sorry fr ) with a lot of interesting pics inside

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nothing has changed

copeab · « **Reply #6 on:** February 03, 2014, 05:40:12 PM »

Here's a page with some notes and photos of armed motorcycles and quadracycles, although many fall out of the IHMN period:

http://www.landships.info/landships/softskin_articles/armed_bikes.html

I'll add that Denmark used some armed mortorcycles with a 20mm cannon in a sidecar in 1940 and post-WWII there was a Vespa armed with a surplus 75mm recoilless cannon,nfor paratrooperd. Neither gun was fired on the move.

arabianknight · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2014, 12:57:15 PM »

Quote from: Sendak on February 03, 2014, 02:01:36 AM

Something about its seems as workable but, in my fevered opinion, it warrants a few 'adjustments'. I'd make several for my mob recommending the updates below.

First, turn the contraption around, small wheel forward.

Give the beast a hand tiller.

Slap on a Lewis Gun with a pintle mount.*

Before you can say "Henry Ford", a horse-less chariots with a bit o' sting thrown in. If I can find some miniature monkeys I'd have a few as gunner's mates.

*
Sort of like RFC pilots trying to reload Lewis Guns and fly their kite.

You wouldnt even have to build it for the table. Eureka already have two

Machine Gun:

http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_153_165&products_id=1984

and Cannon:

http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_153_165&products_id=1985

copeab · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2014, 01:26:20 PM »

Those two minis remind me of the Tsar tank, which is rather too large for the game:

http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/russian-tsar-tank.jpg

Sendak · « **Reply #9 on:** February 05, 2014, 12:52:30 AM »

Quote from: arabianknight on February 04, 2014, 12:57:15 PM

You wouldnt even have to build it for the table. Eureka already have two

Tip O' the Hat for that arabianknight!!

I gets the idee (from inspiration, kindly thanks to oabee) and they gets the payola.

Bullshott · « **Reply #10 on:** February 05, 2014, 08:23:00 AM »

Agreed that the Eureka offerings are a perfect basis for this vehicle. I'd personally go for the MG trike, as the cannon version is just that bit too solid/heavy for the look of the original vehicle (but would convert nicely into a steam trike or somesuch).

Bullshott · « **Reply #11 on:** February 05, 2014, 08:24:32 AM »

How about an elecro-trike fitted with an arc generator as a mobile power source for a company with lots of VSF technology?

TimK · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2014, 12:55:12 PM »

Quote

i'm not sure about that , there were a lot of electric cars in the 1890's , the only problem was about autonomy ( 30 to 50 km and the weight of the batteries )

Don't be too quick to dismiss the technology - "la Jamais Content" - first car to reach 100kM/h, in 1899, was electric (and driven by a Belgian). Build it with spoked wheels instead of solids and put a gatling on the front......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jamais_Contente

Tim

Craig · « **Reply #13 on:** February 06, 2014, 07:06:10 PM »

Quote from: arabianknight on February 04, 2014, 12:57:15 PM

You wouldnt even have to build it for the table. Eureka already have two
Cannon:
http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_153_165&products_id=1985

One is somewhat concerned over the effect of the recoil of that cannon on the crew...

lou passejaire · « **Reply #14 on:** February 06, 2014, 07:19:47 PM »

remind me of the tchad soldiers, 30 years ago, trying to fire 120mm mortar from the back of a peugeot 404 pickup ...

somekind of a one shot vehicle

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