From: Nigel Hay - MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 06:10:14 PST
Some of The WW2 Mack trucks were also dieseled I recall?
Nige
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From: "Steve & Jeanne Keith" <cckw@attbi.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] gasoline for tanks?
> Supposedly the Navy won the battle on diesel and the Army was told to to
use
> gasoline. You will also recall that the early tanks had radial gasoline
> engines. They were used because of the power to weight ratio was about as
> good as you could get at the time. Both Gubersion and Catapillar made a
few
> radial diesel aircooled engines for tanks in WW2.
>
> The only WW2 truck I can think of that was diesel was the early M20
Diamond
> T tank transporter. Even the later WW2 M26 tank transporter used an 1060
cid
> OHC Hall-Scott gasoline engine.
>
> The diesel engines back then were big and inefficient compared to today or
> even the gasoline engines of the day. The Corbit and Brockway trucks had
an
> 855 cid 6 cyl gasoline flat head engine that weighed in at about 2400#.
>
>
> Steve AKA Dr Deuce
>
>
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