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From: <WreckerFC@aol.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Stalwart in the USA
> <<After all, it's not your ordinary truck>>
>
> ... and the fact that on road, it handles like a potatoe,
>
Not exactly, with the steering correctly set and a clean steering pump
supply filter (always forgotten) its not bad at all, in any event you have
gobs of road space over there and nice square intersections, UK junctions
make the assistance of a "commander" absolutely essential, driver visibility
is not a strong point; they're not exactly fast either but the "middle hand
drive" is compatible with whatever side you need to drive on.
>and tyre sizes are really critical to the life of the transmission
especially wheel >stations!
>
Important yes, really critical, not really. Once mis-matched scrub wear can
be quite alarming, the wheel stations can easily handle it but tracta joints
and bevel boxes get a hard time.
Of greater concern is the inaccessibility and severe difficulty of attending
to anything other than minor maintenance, challenging would be an
understatement.
>
> Howard
> ... but one with a crane is very nice!
>
Yes it is and quite rare, swimming (re-activated) crane variants (FV623 -
Artillery Limber) are even rarer, a total of only 117 were made and owing to
previous disinterest many were shipped to the US, chopped and stretched for
the tour industry and had the Atlas 3001 hydraulic cranes summarily stripped
out and junked.
There is a small but quite active Stalwart mailing list:
Stolly@yahoogroups.com
Richard
Southampton - England
20ET51 - STAL II 894
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