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Dimensional Engineering Snowbird 6x6

Dimensional Engineering Snowbird in The Night They Saved Christmas, Movie made for TV, 1984

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Dimensional Engineering Snowbird 6x6

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train68 ◊ 2020-10-23 20:46	Class: Simple truck.
chaymond ◊ 2020-10-24 03:07	According to this site it’s a Snowbird 6x6 articulated truck used in early 1980s Alaskan petroleum industry. It’s on this page - scroll to bottom - Link to "www.unusuallocomotion.com" Image here - https://www.unusuallocomotion.com/medias/images/snowbird-6x6-truck.jpg -- Last edit: 2020-10-24 03:09:24
s13a ◊ 2020-10-24 04:18	@chaymond, excellent find I'll save the image here from your link (in case it goes AWOL) and because the information about this is very minimal. I've found some info about the company from Louis Charles Barbieri's obituary. He created Dimensional Engineering (as well as Imagineering Inc. and Widget Works) in Seattle: Quote In 1974, Lou moved with his family to Seattle to work on the first container cranes on Harbor Island. Over the years, Lou owned several fabrication shops. He opened his first business in Alviso, California in 1957. Later he opened Imagineering Inc., Dimensional Engineering and Widget Works in Seattle. Lou became a respected fixture in Seattle’s industrial fabrication market for firms serving Alaska, Canada, and the Far East... ...Lou was incredibly innovative and patented several inventions. He loved to figure out ways to make machines work more efficiently or come up with a completely new concept. A couple of his inventions were the Uni Track and Snowbird. The all-terrain vehicles were used in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/seattle-wa/louis-barbieri-6113911
chaymond ◊ 2020-10-24 09:05	@s139, thanks took a bit of digging! Well done on confirming

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