Category: Fun Stuff

TruckTyreSaver is billed as the world’s smallest truck tyre filling unit. TruckTyreSaver is a compact, self-contained, nitrogen generator based tyre inflation system designed for filling large vehicle tyres with nitrogen, supplying the purity required to keep tyres at constant pressure. The TruckTyreSaver will enable truck owners and drivers to take advantage of the acknowledged benefits… Continue reading World’s Smallest Large Tyre Nitrogen Filling Unit

Those of us who’ve been dreaming of cheap personal air travel in the Buck Rogers, sci-fi jet-pack mode should turn their eyes towards Vinci, Italy on May 25. That’s when Gennai Yanagisawa, inventor of the tiny GEN H-4 personal helicopter, will be taking his lightweight 165-pound whirly-gig on a demonstration flight. Why Vinci? According to… Continue reading World’s Smallest Helicopter

What happens when you take the trailer off a prime hauler, do a bit of remodelling of the cab, and turn it into a pick-up truck? International did just that and created a crew cab with enough room to seat five sumo wrestlers without them touching plus a big enough tray to carry a jet… Continue reading World’s Largest Pick Truck Spawns an Entire Family

The Peel P50 is a three-wheeled microcar manufactured in 1962 and 1965 by the Manx Peel Engineering Company. It retailed for £199 when new, and currently holds the record for the smallest-ever automobile to go into production. Designed as a city car, it was advertised as capable of seating “one adult and a shopping bag.”… Continue reading World’s Smallest Car: Peel 50

ENGINE: 1. 500 bhp (372 kW) @ 5600 rpm (60.4 bhp/liter); 525 lb.-ft. (712 Nm) @ 4200 rpm 2. 10-cylinder 90-degree V-type, liquid-cooled, 505 cubic inches (8277 cc) 3. 356-T6 aluminum alloy block with cast-iron liners, aluminum alloy cylinder heads 4. Bore x Stroke: 4.03 inches x 3.96 inches (102.4 x 100.6) 5. Two pushrod-actuated… Continue reading World’s Fastest Motorcycle

East Hampton, US–William Meyer Jr. of Amagansett and Florida and Margaret Waltz of Pennsylvania had arrived safely after flying through several time zones and over the North Atlantic, setting a record time of 15 hours, 23 minutes. Margaret Waltz, left, and William Meyer next to the TBM 850 they flew The team took off from… Continue reading Fastest Single-Turbine Engine Plane Set World Record Over Atlantic

We like cool engineering. To help celebrate the achievements of the wider construction world, we’ve assembled a list of the projects we think constitute the greatest engineering achievements of the last decade. You might not agree with all the entries, or their ranking, but the ingenuity behind each of these projects is undeniable. Each one… Continue reading The 10 Greatest Engineering Feats of the Decade

McCarthy Heavy Equipment, a division of McCarthy and member of the Bidvest Group, is expanding its product range on offer to the booming construction industry. McCarthy Heavy Equipment has signed a sole distribution agreement with the Sany Group, the largest privately-owned equipment manufacturer in China. Established in 1994 and listed on the Shanghai stock exchange,… Continue reading Sany Holds Two World Records in Concrete Pumping

China has now surpassed the United States as the world’s biggest automotive market with more than 6 million units sold in the first half of 2009. According to the official Xinhua news agency (quoted by Nikkei news service), new-car sales in China “jumped 17.7% year on year to a record 6.09 million units, hitting 6… Continue reading China Replaces USA As World’s Biggest Car Market

More than 200 stores in Canada and U.S. to Soap it Up on June 20 to help those in need and earn worldwide bragging rights. Hamilton, ON – June 17th 2009 – CARSTAR Automotive Canada announced the company’s intention to set a Guinness World Record by washing more than 4,000 cars in eight hours at… Continue reading Carstar Collision Centers to Attempt Guinness World Record