The following image appeared on the December 1957 issue of Mechanix Illustrated.
It shows a woman smiling while being run over by a mammoth truck with unusually large wheels.
She comes off as enjoying herself and apparently unharmed.
The accompanied caption identified the vehicle as a Chevrolet-manufactured Albee Rolligon weighing 7 tons.
For comparison, a typical car tire is pumped to about 30-35 PSI.
He designed bag-like tires made from nylon impregnated with rubber, that were very flexible.
They deformed easily but did not expand.
Eventually, Albee founded the Albee Rolligon Company and began producing vehicles fitted with low pressure tires.
The first prototype Rolligon built by William Albee.
Unfortunately, William Albee failed to turn the concept into a successful business.
NOV still manufacturers Rolligon-equipped vehicles.
Their biggest clients are oil companies operating in northern Alaska.
Rolligons play a huge part in the maintaining of oil fields in Prudhoe Bay in Alaskas North Slope.
Only the Rolligons can transport supplies and men efficiently in this topography.
The added benefit of the Rolligon is that they do not damage the tundra.
The inventor himself getting happily run over by his own invention.
