K-1 cart
Laying wire from a K-1 cart, formerly known as Wire cart, type N
K-1 cart, formerly known as wire cart type N
The K-1 cart is a wire cart type K-1. It comprises a 2-wheel reel cart used for the rapid laying and recovering of telephone and telegraph lines in the field. It is completely equipped with a reel, mechanically rotated and controlled, 1 chest with wire-laying equipment, a driver's seat, and appropriate parts and fittings specially designed and used for only on this cart; designed to carry 5 miles of wire, type W-39. It was formerly known as "Wire reel cart, type N".[1]
A rare sample of the Wire reel cart, type N can be found in the Signal Corps Museum at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
See also
Notes
- 2) Electrical instruments and telephones of the US Signal Corps (1911)
- 3) Military Signal Corps manual (1918)
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