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(...) centipede is a steel hauling trailer. That is, it hauls structural steel (or coil steel) It's the same form factor as a regular 48' or 54' dual axle trailer except it has more axles. Way way more, like 8 or 10. Same width, same length. Does (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Dunno about Europe, but here in australia they're reasonably common - often used for flat-trays carting building materials (brick pallets, etc). They generally have the 4 front wheels & 2 axles with 4 wheels each on the back. Many also have a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yeah...I'm in the US too and mostly see the usual 18 wheelers. I have seen quite a few trash trucks though which seem to have 3 drive axles in the back, each housing 4 wheels (making total number of wheels 14). The interesting thing is that (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Uh, I guess the best way to describe it are beeping and whirring sounds. Actually, if I remember correctly, there were at least two types of this piece--one for space, and one for town. The one for town made different kinds of siren noises (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Cool...that seems like an interesting piece. What kinds of sounds in general did it make? I would get a scan link but it seems that brickshelf is missing the 8720 instructions. I was thinking of scanning and uploading one but my 8720 manual is (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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