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March Military Campaign: WWII Tank Transporters

Posted March 01, 2010 11:08 AM by dstrohl

Commenter Timothy Wade chided us earlier this year (good-naturedly, of course) for not doing our research on the Mack T8 double-ender tank transporter that we linked to on BigLorryBlog. Well, the perfect time to present the findings of said research is now, the day we kick off our fourth annual March Military Campaign.

According to Crismon, the T8 actually had its genesis early in 1942, when the Army approached Cook Brothers (Allied Machinery manufacturing Company) in Los Angeles. Cook Brothers had already developed a four-wheel-drive chain-driven bogie used in a couple 8×8 vehicles (the T55 and an undesignated desert training vehicle), and now the Army wanted the company to engineer a double-articulated tank transporter using those bogies. Artists at the Detroit Arsenal sketched those designs, designated the T1.

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03/01/2010 5:11 PM

Great looking back.

Initially the LeTourneau T4 Looked similar to OSHKOSH sever duty transporter.

But its interesting looking at the Latest Oshkosh transporters this 72 tons.....thats one Abrams topped off and this .

Came within a heartbeat that its good thing congress didn't get its way back in the 80's, thinking our military didn't need trucks like this.

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Re: March Military Campaign: WWII Tank Transporters

03/02/2010 12:58 AM

Thanks for the link. I really liked the video.

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