Peter Skelly was the designer, builder, maintainer as far as I know.
Believed there were two complete systems and were replaced when the pickup
trucks finally wore out. Those were elegant in design, operation, and
simplicity and very inexpensive to operate. Only limitation is available
space. Put them on a 10K runway and wow!

Frank

"Bill Gribble" wrote in
message .. .
F.L. Whiteley writes
I've stowed some images of that here.
http://www.soarcsa.org/thinking_page...erse_pulley/de
fault.htm

Heh. I noticed this truck hidden behind the Butts on Saturday, rusting
away quietly with brambles growing over it. Realised it was a now
disused winch system. Didn't realise it was the one they used to use for
auto-tows, though in hind sight should've guessed. Having said that, I
hadn't realised the club discontinued auto-tows as recently as the turn
of the millennium (I only joined at the beginning of last month).

Nice to see pictures of the thing in all its old glory. Thank-you.

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Bill Gribble

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