Kevin Strain wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >===Mil-Veh is a member-supported mailing list===
> >To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: <mil-veh-off@mil-veh.org>
> >To switch to the DIGEST mode, send e-mail to <mil-veh-digest@mil-veh.org>
> >To reach a human, contact <ack@mil-veh.org>
> >
>
> ===Mil-Veh is a member-supported mailing list===
> To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: <mil-veh-off@mil-veh.org>
> To switch to the DIGEST mode, send e-mail to <mil-veh-digest@mil-veh.org>
> To reach a human, contact <ack@mil-veh.org>
There is one (maybe two) of these in Mt Airy, Maryland at a towing
service....
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jan 02 2001 - 23:13:20 PST