The Rotinoff Super Atlantic is a 6×4

ballast tractor A ballast tractor is a specially weighted tractor unit of a heavy hauler combination. It is designed to utilize a drawbar to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large trailer loads which are loaded in a hydraulic modular trailer. When feasible ...

made by the British company

Rotinoff Motors Rotinoff Motors Ltd was a British commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Colnbrook in western London. The company was founded in 1952 by the Belarusian émigré George Rotinoff. The Rotinoff company specialized in the production of ballast tr ...

Ltd. The

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bought ten of them (in Atlantic and Super Atlantic configuration) in 1958, which they used to pull trailers built by Scheuerle with a payload capacity of 50 tons. These were used for transporting the tank Pz 55/57

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, thus reaching the total weight of 104 tons. The Rotinoff Super Atlantic features a fuel capacity of 580 litres in two tanks. In addition to the three places in the cabin there are also two standing outside for traffic control available. Rotinoff-Super-Atlantic

One of these tractors is on display at the

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, another in the Swiss Army Historic Foundation in Burgdorf, Switzerland and one is preserved in Oxfordshire, England.

References

External links

Data on the Rotinoff Super Atlantic by militärfahrzeuge.ch

Schweizerisches Militärmuseum Full: Werksammlung Mowag GmbH Kreuzlingen

Stiftung HAM Swiss Army Historic Foundation
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