Monday, October 28, 2013

Mobile lounges, and Dodge trucks, the 1958-1963 airport "mobile lounge"


the Dulles Airport "mobile lounges" that moved passengers from terminal to plane. Consisting of a body made the Budd Co. of Philadelphia mated to a Chrysler chassis powered by two 172-hp engines, each 37-ton, 90-passenger unit cost $232,733; an engineering prototype constructed in 1961 cost $1.6 million 


https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6407#post-13030439



Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Va., 1958-63.  A sort of giant rolling jetway (mostly out of frame at left) that carried passengers at Dulles from terminal to plane. The stair truck supported the gangway. 120mm color transparency by Balthazar Kora

Found on http://www.shorpy.com/node/16273 , http://www.shorpy.com/node/16255 ,
http://www.shorpy.com/node/16245

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