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One of those Hetzers is in our MV museum in Barrie,Ontario, Canada.
Robert(Toronto)
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> From: Richard Notton <Richard@fv623.demon.co.uk>
> To: Military Vehicles List <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
> Subject: Re: [MV] was:W/S down, now: Kets
> Date: February 21, 2000 4:56 PM
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> From: Raimondo L. Torelli <thealamo@iigbna.iigb.na.cnr.it>
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> Date: 21 February 2000 12:38
> Subject: [MV] was:W/S down, now: Kets
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> >Something is... wrong!!! I never heard of a... 1949 Kettenkrad!!!
> >
> KK manufacture carried on well after the end of W.W.II, they were very
useful
> farm tractors and logging tugs, officially Waldschlepper (Forest
tractor).
> Although designed and accredited to NSU the KK was made also by Stoewer
and
> Simca in France, Simca saw a possibility as a French "Wine Tractor" using
> stock-piled W.W.II parts, with the forks and wheel deleted and the whole
device
> running in reverse, they failed to fully understand the nuances of the KK
design
> and after making a few found the "reversal" to actually make the vehicle
more
> expensive than a complete new-build tractor so dropped the idea.
>
> Some other W.W.II German designs carried on well after the end too,
famously
> there were 700 Hetzers on the line needing only assembly and were
completed to
> afford some employment then sold, to aid economic recovery.
>
> Richard
> (Southampton - England)
>
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