From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 13:13:09 PDT
At 2:01 PM -0500 6/14/04, J Travis wrote:
>It wasn't just the halftracks; remember the Kettenkrad tracked
>motorcycle also had a similar set-up for its front fork. Talk about
>something that would have just scrubbed the front tire without it!
>(I believe they even just pulled the whole front fork assembly at
>times for bad terrain- I guess it was just there to make it easier
>for the average German soldier to figure out how to drive the
>beastie. Does look like it'd be a blast to ride one, though.
Technically isn't the Kettenkrad a halftrack? I suspect the track
braking thing was applied to most of the sd kfz families of half
tracks that Hanomog and Bussag NAG built.
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