From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 13:11:32 PDT
At 2:18 PM -0500 8/19/04, everette wrote:
>Many years ago (1950s) it was common (in NE Ark where I lived) to see
>commercial trucks that had drive shaft to front tandem axle and between
>tires on both front and rear tandems was a large pully and a very large "V"
>drive belt on each side between front tandem and rear to power rear tandem.
>
>Did the military ever do anything like this??
Not quite the same thing but British trucks had
chains that could be put on the rear tandems to
add traction in mud and soft going.
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