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From: Raimondo L. Torelli <thealamo@iigbna.iigb.na.cnr.it>
To: Military Vehicles List <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
Date: 21 February 2000 12:38
Subject: [MV] was:W/S down, now: Kets
>Something is... wrong!!! I never heard of a... 1949 Kettenkrad!!!
>
KK manufacture carried on well after the end of W.W.II, they were very useful
farm tractors and logging tugs, officially Waldschlepper (Forest tractor).
Although designed and accredited to NSU the KK was made also by Stoewer and
Simca in France, Simca saw a possibility as a French "Wine Tractor" using
stock-piled W.W.II parts, with the forks and wheel deleted and the whole device
running in reverse, they failed to fully understand the nuances of the KK design
and after making a few found the "reversal" to actually make the vehicle more
expensive than a complete new-build tractor so dropped the idea.
Some other W.W.II German designs carried on well after the end too, famously
there were 700 Hetzers on the line needing only assembly and were completed to
afford some employment then sold, to aid economic recovery.
Richard
(Southampton - England)
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