From: uniquemachine@cybcon.com
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 03:14:27 PST
Yes, this is correct. Some T34 chassis based vehicles used all
steel wheels, but had complaints of excessive noise and faster
wear on the tracks. All steel wheels became standard on the KV
series, then the IS series during WWII.
> 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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