World of the Bizarre

Company creates huge clock out of 14 trucks

By T.K. Randall
September 26, 2016

Image: Driving Car
Credit: Santeri Viinamäki / CC BY-SA 4.0 (adapted) Swedish automotive industry manufacturer Scania was certainly keen to impress recently when it decided to raise the stakes by constructing a working clock out of its own vehicles.

Situated in a disused airfield, the huge clock face consisted of fourteen identical trucks positioned in three separate lines to represent the second, minute and hour hands.To make the second-hand of the clock function, the longest line of lorries had to be driven around in a perfect circle once every 60 seconds with each individual vehicle maintaining a constant speed.

The trucks making up the minute and hour hands meanwhile had to keep starting and stopping at set intervals to keep time with the second-hand trucks as they continued to circle around.

A video explaining in more detail how the stunt was pulled off can be viewed below.


Source: Business Insider

Tags: Scania, Clock, Trucks