K-1 cart

It comprises a 2-wheel reel cart used for the rapid laying and recovering of telephone and telegraph lines in the field.

It is completely equipped with a reel, mechanically rotated and controlled, 1 chest with wire-laying equipment, a driver's seat, and appropriate parts and fittings specially designed and used for only on this cart; designed to carry 5 miles of wire, type W-39.

It was formerly known as "Wire reel cart, type N".

[1] A rare sample of the Wire reel cart, type N can be found in the Signal Corps Museum at Fort Eisenhower, Georgia.

This military vehicle article is a stub.

Laying wire from a K-1 cart, formerly known as Wire cart, type N
K-1 cart, formerly known as wire cart type N