All the (off)road going amphibious vehicles of the world. (work in progress) All the (off)road going amphibious vehicles of the world. (work in progress)

The first 2 pictures came from Charlie Piquet he writes:

I did not take the pictures but my father Clyde was able to secure them from the old picture files of the Midland News. The pictures were offered to the public for a charge and what was left he was able to secure at no cost. The photos where taken in 1957.

BARC A photo of three BARC’s traveling down what is locally known as ‘Cook’s Ferry Hill’. The signs on the BARC's read, “Made by Treadwell Construction Co. Midland, PA”.

The location is Pennsylvania, note the white line on the asphalt of the state highway Route 68.
The wheels on the left side of the picture are completely off the pavement.

The exact spot is on the north side of the Ohio River, directly across that river from Shipping port, Pennsylvania, the site of the first commercial nuclear powered electrical generating station in the world.

BARC The second photo shows 4 BARC's lined up, they were able to come out of the river at Industry Village.

The BARC's were en route to the river for testing. they used an old steamboat landing access point.

BARC Other firms that have build BARC's are the Great lakes Engineering works of River Rouge Michigan and the Transval Electronic Corporation in the USA.

BARC Russ has wrote me:

I was stationed at Ft. Story Va. in 1964. There were a few BARC's there.

We had a new guy in our company that had not seen or heard one.
During a training exercise he was assigned to guard duty on the beach when the BARC's were already in the ocean.
One came to shore loaded so it was low in the water. In the pitch black darkness all he could see was these lights low in the water, spaced far apart and hear this loud strange noise. He came running back to our company area scared to death.
He didn't know what it was but knew he wasn't going to stop it with a M-1 filled with blanks.

barcJim has wrote me:

We took annual training at both Ft. Story and and Ft. Eustis, VA.  One year we took annual training in Mobile, Alabama.  We took 3 of our 60's from Galveston to Mobile on the Intra coastal Waterway.  One boat had our fuel trailer, one had our water trailer, and the other had our radio truck and navigation tools (compasses, radios, etc).  It is a little over 500 miles from Galveston to Mobile, and the trip was not expected to take more than 2.5 days, running 24 hours a day, with a couple of intermediate fuel stops. 
 
It took us five days.  By the time we got to Mobile, we had blown 3 engines on each boat, and there was not a functional gathering box on any of them.  The boats just were not designed for 24 hours of operations.
  
BARC 6 photo was send in by John Loeffler.

He wrote:
I was in the Platoon at Fort Story, VA. that tested the BARC in 1958 when it was in the experiment stage. This picture was taken the day it was approved for use and that is why the picture was taken.

BARCS 9 & 13 This photo of the BARC's 9 and 13 was lost and found again.

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The color pictures are taken in the General G.C. Marshall museum in Zwyndrecht, Netherlands.

That Museum was moved almost entirely in 2006 to the 

 Liberty Park  Overloon Netherlands.

Sig of the 41 Sig of the 41 send in by Billy.