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From: <DDoyle9570@aol.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 3:44 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Bridge Plate Letters and Numbers for M35A2...
I have this contribution from John Edwards to the list of November 1998. . .
. . .
Richard
Southampton - England
This info comes from an old part photocopied engineering manual. Sadly I do
not have a list of all vehicle types, but this may give you all a clue.
There are two documents that need to be found to complete the full picture.
They are FM 5-36 & TM 5-312. The document gets very wordy & rambles on about
various issues.
Otherwise, in summary
1) for single vehicles
- yellow circular sign with black numerals
- sign is painted or attached to front or side of vehicle below drivers
line of vision
- signs on front of vehicle are 9" in diam, side mounted plates are 6"
in diam
2) for combo vehicles (semi-trailer)
- any tow or trailer that operate as one complete unit or rig
- the front plate must have a RED "C" above the bridge class number
- side mounted plates on a combo show separate bridge class numbers on
6" sign
To assist all concerned there is an expedient formula to use.
W = (A*P*N)/2000 where
W = gross weight of vehicle
A = average tire contact are in square inches (tires on hard surface)
P = tire pressure in PSI
N = number of tires
then round the number up to nearest whole number.
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