PART TWO
In part one of this feature, I detailed developments during the war years, as well as those immediately after – such as the CFT, Fourdrive, and Sea Horse – but there was much more to come, including machinery that you would not usually associate the company with.
County was involved in moving heavy, and sometimes abnormal, loads from its early days, and this continued into the 1950s with its crawlers.
This led to some specialist variants, and development of specific accessories – such as multi-height tow hitches, and the adoption of torque converter transmissions alongside Brockhouse transmissions
County produced some in-house heavy haulage units, but the concept of County-based aircraft tugs was taken up by Leicestershire-based engineering company E C Hallam. I guess it was due to the potentially high profile of such units, but these became quite well known, although not many were produced, sadly.
One had visions of all major airports having County-based units hauling out your aircraft as
