From: Jim Webster (james.webster@iomartdsl.com)
Date: Tue Mar 15 2005 - 14:08:42 PST
uniquemachine@cybcon.com wrote:
> If the Soviet rubber vulcanization was so poor, what was their
> method for putting rubber around the road wheels on all the T34
> variants during WWII? Different system completely?
It wasn't a case of being poor it was more a case of rubber shortages
which got so great at one stage that they had to produce all-steel
roadwheels.
The main reason for the all-steel tracks, apart from ease of use is that
metaled roads are comparatively rare in the USSR - most are the dirt
road type so there is no incentive to produce tarmac friendly rubber
block tracks.
TTFN
Jim
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