The K-3 cart is a 2-wheel, strongly constructed wire cart, similar to
artillery
Artillery is a class of heavy military ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during siege ...
caissons, but equipped for carrying and reeling out wire; used together with Signal cart, type K-4, to form the
wagon
A wagon or waggon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people.
Wagons are immediately distinguished from ...
formerly called "Pintle wire wagon, model 1910."
The image from Electrical instruments and telephones of the US Signal Corps 1911 is accompanied by the following text: "In the latest model the front element of the
vehicle
A vehicle (from la, vehiculum) is a machine that transports people or cargo. Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, mobility scooters for disabled people), railed vehicles (trains, trams), wa ...
carries the reel and
wire
Overhead power cabling. The conductor consists of seven strands of steel (centre, high tensile strength), surrounded by four outer layers of aluminium (high conductivity). Sample diameter 40 mm
A wire is a flexible strand of metal.
Wire is c ...
and is known as the reel
cart
A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people.
It is different from the flatbed tr ...
. The rear element, known as the signal cart, is a chest of compartments suitable for carrying the buzzers, batteries, flags, field glasses and other equipment used by field companies of the Signal Corps. The rear signal cart may be detached from the reel cart and the former used alone in laying and recovering wire. The pintle type wagon is drawn by four horses.
The signal cart chest can be moved forward and backward to adjust weight on the
horse
The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million y ...
s' necks".
See also
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List of Signal Corps Vehicles
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K-1 cart
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 ...
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K-2 Lance wagon
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K-4 signal cart
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K-5 truck
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K-8 cart The K-8 cart was a two-wheel horse-drawn cart used by the U.S. Signal Corps, designed for transporting in the field a large assortment of signalling equipment in the field. The cart's gauge is 5 ft 2 in, the wheel rims inches wide, and the wheel ...
References
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