From: Glen Closson (glen_closson@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 09:28:53 PST
They were climbing over obstacals and up hills. They were discontinued because these didn't work that well (as I understand it).
Glen
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Bruce C. Beattie" <bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu>
>Sent: Mar 21, 2006 9:14 AM
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: [MV] Roller
>
>And now for a completely MV oriented question....
>
>You know the roller that is on the front of the scout cars and I think
>the Half Tracks? I
>alwas assumed that they were for getting out of bomb craters, but when I
>was at the MVPA
>site today and was looking at one, it seemed that it was much too high
>to work for that
>purpose. Does anyone know why they put them on and why they discontinued
>them?
>Bruce MVPA 23824
>
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Regards,
Glen
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