Electric Tricycle

[Bullshott]

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]

Very cool!

[oabee]

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

[Sendak]

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]

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]

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  )
nothing has changed 

[copeab]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[TimK]

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]

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]

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