From: Glen Bedel (GBedel@designforum.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 06:03:59 PST
just an "unverified fact".
I was told when I was a boy that the military used gasoline because it did
not freeze in winter.
and one of the reasons Germany had problems in Russia.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve & Jeanne Keith [mailto:cckw@attbi.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:44 AM
To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
Subject: Re: [MV] gasoline for tanks?
Supposedly the Navy won the battle on diesel and the Army was told to to use
gasoline. You will also recall that the early tanks had radial gasoline
engines. They were used because of the power to weight ratio was about as
good as you could get at the time. Both Gubersion and Catapillar made a few
radial diesel aircooled engines for tanks in WW2.
The only WW2 truck I can think of that was diesel was the early M20 Diamond
T tank transporter. Even the later WW2 M26 tank transporter used an 1060 cid
OHC Hall-Scott gasoline engine.
The diesel engines back then were big and inefficient compared to today or
even the gasoline engines of the day. The Corbit and Brockway trucks had an
855 cid 6 cyl gasoline flat head engine that weighed in at about 2400#.
Steve AKA Dr Deuce
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