Pettibone Mercury

Pettibone Mercury in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Movie, 1986 IMDB

Class: Others, Ground conveyor — Model origin: US

Pettibone Mercury

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Comments about this vehicle

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mike962 DE

◊ 2014-04-30 02:33

 might be in US Navy inventory , scene inside aircraft carrier

lightninboy US

◊ 2014-05-08 19:04

 It kind of looks like a golf cart with a fork on the front of it.

mike962 DE

◊ 2014-05-08 19:45

 so this could be a specially made for NAVY ?


something wild for the navy Hastings Deering Beast naval crane

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Ingo DE

◊ 2014-05-08 20:09
mike962 wrote so this could be a specially made for NAVY ?

:think: Im Moment sind keine im Angebot, aber hast Du Dir die Bundeswehr-Gabelstapler, die ab und zu bei www.vebeg.de verkauft werden, mal näher angesehen, ob es spezielle "Militärversionen" waren? Die alten waren jedenfalls alle NATO-oliv lackiert.

lightninboy US

◊ 2014-05-08 21:05

 It could be special-made for carrying food into kitchens, etc.

lightninboy US

◊ 2014-06-02 04:14

 It seems unusual. Why would a ship want one of these if a conventional forklift would do the same thing?

lightninboy US

◊ 2016-01-23 03:19

 It's kind of like a Manitou Buggy.

mike962 DE

◊ 2016-02-16 16:26
lightninboy wrote It seems unusual. Why would a ship want one of these if a conventional forklift would do the same thing?

it looks lower than normal forklift

notice the distance from driver feet to the bottom

normal forklift is much higher
http://twentywheels.com/imgs/a/a/n/w/d/clark_forklift_1_thumb2_lgw.jpg

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jcb UK

◊ 2016-02-16 16:30

 It will be low built to work beneath low height decks on ship.

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mike962 DE

◊ 2016-02-16 16:32

 exactly, thru narrow corridors on a carrier

also engine compartment at rear is very small too

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2016-02-16 18:03

 I like the idea of a low height fork lift. It appeals to my sense of the ridiculous, like the Wolseley Gyrocar or the Reeves Octo-auto.

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mike962 DE

◊ 2016-10-26 20:55

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a detail which I missed so far, it's asymmetric, the driver is on the left side instead of the middle (like pretty much every normal forklift)


not the wanted one but confirms it may be specially made for the NAVY
Link to "twentywheels.com"

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lightninboy US

◊ 2016-10-26 23:50

 There's a good chance it's a Lift King. Who else makes a military-special offset-driver forklift?

http://www.manitexliftking.com/www/industries_military.aspx

mike962 DE

◊ 2021-12-08 20:42
lightninboy wrote There's a good chance it's a Lift King. Who else makes a military-special offset-driver forklift?

http://www.manitexliftking.com/www/industries_military.aspx

found this thing , no id mentioned but we now know capacity is 6000....
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mike962 DE

◊ 2021-12-08 20:48

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mike962 DE

◊ 2021-12-08 20:50

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lightninboy US

◊ 2021-12-09 21:16

 So, it's apparently compact and the driver's position is offset so the engine can be farther ahead.

It's pretty much not a question of if it's a Liftking but what model.

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mike962 DE

◊ 2022-11-04 22:15
mike962 wrote
found this thing , no id mentioned but we now know capacity is 6000....
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source here, the images are in HD
Link to "nara.getarchive.net"
Link to "nara.getarchive.net"


seems this forklift was phased out in the 80s/early 90s

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mike962 DE

◊ 2023-04-05 23:37

 maybe Pettibone Mercury logo ??
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lightninboy US

◊ 2023-04-06 23:40

 Where's proof that Pettibone Mercury made an offset forklift used by the U.S. Navy?

mike962 DE

◊ 2023-04-07 20:35

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mike962 DE

◊ 2023-04-12 13:21

 FINALLY the mystery forklift is solved

it's indeed a Pettibone-Mercury !!

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Link to "nara.getarchive.net"

Link to "nara.getarchive.net"

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lightninboy US

◊ 2023-04-13 19:19

 Did Pettibone Mercury sell the forklift division to some other company? Pettibone still sells telehandlers.

mike962 DE

◊ 2023-04-14 20:09
lightninboy wrote Did Pettibone Mercury sell the forklift division to some other company? Pettibone still sells telehandlers.

only found this quate

Quote Pettibone Mercury specialized in material handling equipment from 1881 to 1996. The Produced from 1950-1957 Pettibone airtug has been used to move aircraft, baggage carts and the like worldwide at general aviationand military air bases. The company was sold to the A&G manufacturing company in 1996 where aircraft tugs are still manufactured.


https://mofts.org/collection/industrial-airtug/

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lightninboy US

◊ 2023-04-15 00:12

 I'm not even sure Pettibone Mercury made warehouse-type forklifts after 1965.

I found a 1967.
Link to "www.govdeals.com"

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