Dunkin' Donuts clocked in with the fastest average time, at 230.38 seconds from first order window approach to full order completion. That's well under three minutes. http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/fast-food-drive-thru-times-study-chick-fil-a-trnd/index.html
Which Gulf War are you referring to? I was in the vicinity during the first one (Saudi and Bahrain) and got involved in the UN assessment for reparations
Obviously from the Band of Canucks A WWII Canadian soldier captures a German platoon during a military re-enactment at the Southern Ontario Military Muster at the Canadian Transportation Museum and Heritage Village Saturday, August 13, 2011.
No takers for the Cranston print then...? 1.) An F.B.E. , and especially this one, was a Class 9 maximum load. So nowhere near strong enought to carry a Cromwell (Class 30) or a Staghound (Class 16) 2.) I cannot envisage a time when a raft would be used to move vehicles between two ends of an incomplete Bailey bridge. It only gets in the way of constructing the actual Bridge, and would foul the operations for floating the Bailey Pontoon Rafts down to their location within the bridge, and it has the potential to damage those parts of the Bridge already constructed. 3.) This Raft looks like a bastard version of the Class 50/60 raft and as I can't see the two DUKWs or the Four Motor boats required to move this raft I have to assume that it is either self-propelled or being pulled to and fro by Kite winches, 4.) Self-Propelled means the use of at least four, unsyncronized, outboard motors which were extremely difficult to manage and most units had no real experience of doing this. Nor many places to practice it either! 5.) Kite winches take a long time to set up and are a more permanent fixture than a quick expedient to getting something from one side to the other, especially in an operational bridging area. It just wouldn't be done, especially when they are other places very nearby where it can be more easily done. 6.) Whilst Rafts were used at Vernon they were employed on the other side of the destroyed bridge near the two small islands. 7.) The Class 50/60 rafts only went into development in 1943 and I'm not sure any were availabe for the Seine crossing, they certainly were for the Rhine Crossing (for which they were in fact designed). 8.) Finally, driving a Sherman off a raft on to a Bailey Floating Bay, or End Floating Bay, supported on only one tripartitie pier? I really don't think so! The Floating Bays and End Floating Bays were only classed at Class 40 when there are two Tripartite Piers in parallel. So one would need at least two tripartite pontoons, with a drop down ramp from the Raft,connecting the raft to the Bailey Floating Bay, and even then I wouldn't want to be driving the Sherman. There's a reason the Landing Bays on either end of the bridge used four tripartite Pontoons, and a Distributing girder, to off-set the load coming from the bank on to the Bridge as the Tanks drive down. Imagine driving from a class 50/60 raft onto a Landing bay, missing one of the tripartitie piers?
You are a better man than me. I studied it and all I could come up with was, "Sure looks like a Cromwell to me."
Ah, but it's a Cromwell with hull escape hatches and truncated side stowage bins but without the compensating turret bins. You must try harder!
From 1944 Popular Mechanics Magazine. Might be deliberate misinformation. If a B-17 could get off the ground with 20,000 pounds of bombs I'll eat my hat. Plus its flying over snow covered mountains.
Getting off the ground with 10,000 lbs. would have been a feat. 4,000 to 6,000 was the standard load.
Chik-Fil-A may be slow, but I suspect it because the lines are usually wrapped around the building twice, while still moving along at a good clip. We have several establishments here in town. I've never thought of the drivethrough wait as slow, just extremely busy. If you want to talk about slow waits, Hardees comes to my mind first. And good luck with getting what you actually ordered. They take the term "grab-bag" to whole new meaning.
I absently mindedly clicked on "25 Cars in Hall of Shame" and saw the most important car of all time. Ford took 19 years to "quickly think about a new model" Let’s take it back to the beginning of automobile history for this one. The Ford Model T certainly put America on wheels and helped the nation’s economy, but it wasn’t very reliable. The Model T was basically a shiny, fancy hunk of junk. The blacksmithed body, air emissions, and poorly crafted controls made Ford quickly think about a new model.
Germans were using Bronze Age cannons in WWII. Workers commissioned by the German occupier in Naaldwijk, load stolen church bells from the church towers. In 1944, 250 church bells were stolen in 1 lnding, the oldest of which came from 1385. These thefts had to make up for the shortage of metals in Germany. The resistance has sunk this with an attack. For the benefit of the German war industry, the Germans demanded many goods and products from the occupied countries. The Netherlands was looted more thoroughly than other countries in a comparable position. With a view to the arms industry, the Germans were particularly interested in metal objects ranging from milk cans to complete inventories of factories. To the great anger of the Dutch church, the bells were even removed from church towers between October 1942 and September 1943 to be melted down. The clocks were so loved by the occupiers, because the alloy of the metal, which consists of 80% copper and 20% tin, has the same composition as that from which cannons are cast. The stocks of these raw materials were largely in the hands of the Allies, which threatened to threaten the production of the German war industry. Source Niod and NOS Journal
Bronze wasn't needed for cannon but for bearings (e.g. U Boat engine bearings) and ship's propellers. Germany was able to get some copper from Sweden but tin was a major problem.
