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All Terrain Vehicle - early version

All Terrain Vehicle - early version

Date Added: 28 April 2008 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1964 Picture No: 326

Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley.
This was demonstrated to Benmore Forestry Students in 1964 but I cannot remember where or what this machine was called. It appears to run on small rubber tyred wheels but how many?

Any information very welcome

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See picture 330 submitted by Alasdair Cameron showing a Halflinger truck at work. Almost certain that the image above is also a version of a Halflinger. Is the name a Scandanavian word for a type of small horse or pony? Comment left on 07 May 2008 at 08:17 by Norman Davidson
Good call, Norman!
"Whatever you want your Haflinger to do, its desire to please combined with a placid temperament make the Haflinger well suited to a wide range of activities. Just look what they can do!"
Description courtesy of the Haflinger Society of Great Britain. Check out their website. Comment left on 07 May 2008 at 11:02 by Gordon At Formem
I remember an FC colleague owning one of these in the 1970's. It was a fantastic little workhorse used on fencing & walling jobs. He never failed to get to work and pulled a few of us out of trouble. Comment left on 28 July 2009 at 21:19 by Rob Bunniss
Hi all, don`t know what Haflinger means, but i think they were built in Austria by the Steyr Puch engineering conglomerate, which, among other things, built HGVs which were imported to the UK in the 80s/early90s. The whole outfit may now be part of MAN or Mercedes in Europe, but i`m not certain about that. Comment left on 14 November 2011 at 17:00 by Anon
Looks like a Steyr Puch Haflinger. Comment left on 04 July 2019 at 20:28 by Doug Turner
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