Re: [MV] M35 tire ?

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 14:38:01 PST


At 4:58 PM -0500 1/20/04, Stephen & Jeanne Keith wrote:
>True, but then again using the every year time frame,
>the splits I could do in my sleep w/o a machine.
>
>Weight is a problem with the combat wheels along
>with the extra machining necessary to make them.
>
>In WW2 the US used them when they needed
>run-flat tires (or nearly so) like on the DUKW.

It seems like the Brits used them on most of their MT. Even
'impressed' civilian cars seem to have received them.

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