Ken:
I believe I have seen on of these tractors. It had eight Michelin super
single radials, 8 wheel drive, 4 wheel steering, a winch, 8 foreward speeds,
an eight cylinder Daimler Mercedes engine, and a fifth wheel. Dose any one
know any source of technical manuals in English for this truck?
kstrain@earthlink.net This is a Masive all terain tractor.
Thanks Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Muttguru@aol.com <Muttguru@aol.com>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Date: Friday, December 01, 2000 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] MAN truck/tractor
>Jim.......
>
>I have a photo or two of this truck somewhere in the archives. During the
>mid-1980's, our group was invited to visit the Greenham Common RAF (USAF)
>Cruise Missile base in Oxfordshire.
>We were given our first ride in a Humvee (the base police had just recived
>them) but the highlight of the trip (apart from a two-hour sojourn to the
>AAFES), was a tour around the mobile missile launchers with an hilarious
tech
>sgt. The launch command vehicles were hauled by the MAN trucks, and several
>of these were in an unusual cammo paint scheme. It seemed that every time
the
>MANs were taken out of the base on exercise, the "peace women" camped
outside
>the gates would hurl cans of paint over the vehicles ! The truck that I
took
>the photo of was "gloss silver" at the front end.
>
>A few years later, I noticed in a DRMS catalog that several MAN
>truck-tractors were up for sale in Germany, most described as "good". As a
>by-the-way, our tec.sgt guide rated the MAN's off-road performance as
"better
>than anything else in the inventory".
>
>kind regards....
>Ken
>
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