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Few new walkarounds of french vehicles from Moscow
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:12 pm Post subject: Few new walkarounds of french vehicles from Moscow
Renault UE2 on the transport trailer svsm.org/gallery/renault_ue Renault UE supply trailer svsm.org/gallery/renault_ue_trailer Lorraine 37L 44 svsm.org/gallery/lorraine37l44 Citroen Type U45 svsm.org/gallery/citroen_type_u45 Laffly/Licorne V15T svsm.org/gallery/LafflyV15T And, as a bonus, Chevrolet CGT FAT Cab 12 svsm.org/gallery/chevr..._fat_cab12

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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:28 pm
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That Licorne V15T is one of the strangest small trucks I think I will ever see! It is a conventional 4x4 with an odd shaped body and roof. The unusual part is there are dolly wheels under the front bumper, and just became someone that it might be nice, another set of wheels between the main axles. It is an 8-wheeler about the size of an M37 3/4 ton.

If you want to keep your sanity (or whatever favourable opinion you might have of French engineering), do not open that gallery!

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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:00 pm
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Actually the extra wheels make sense and were not that uncommon. Many American Halftracks and White Scout Cars had an 'Antiditching roller' on the front bumper in place of a winch. It provided a rolling surface when you nosed up to an embankment or into a trnech or ditch (From what I have heard the M114 could have used one with it's front overhang Rolling Eyes

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As far as the wheels between the main axles that was also somwhat common in tactical wheeled vehicles for a while. In most cases there were spare tires mounted on freewheeling storage mounts on either side of the body. The idea was that it helped keep the vehicle from being hung upon a wall or similar narrow obsticle.

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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:24 pm
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- bsmart

Actually the extra wheels make sense and were not that uncommon. Many American Halftracks and White Scout Cars had an 'Antiditching roller' on the front bumper in place of a winch. It provided a rolling surface when you nosed up to an embankment or into a trnech or ditch (From what I have heard the M114 could have used one with it's front overhang )

As far as the wheels between the main axles that was also somwhat common in tactical wheeled vehicles for a while. In most cases there were spare tires mounted on freewheeling storage mounts on either side of the body. The idea was that it helped keep the vehicle from being hung upon a wall or similar narrow obsticle.

I agree with Bob on this one, though I gotta' wonder why they went with such a front overhang in the first place, something much avoided in all-road vehicles nowadays. Term he's searching for with regard to the middle wheel set is to avoid becoming "high centered", as we know it with tracked vehicles. Otherwise known as being "stuck on yer' belly".

It's odd-lookin', but I can see it at least "working". Whether it did or not, I have no idea.

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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject: Re: Few new walkarounds of french vehicles from Moscow
Reminds me of the St. Chamond Tank. It sure could've used a set of wheels or rollers up front. Joe D

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:20 am Post subject: Re: Few new walkarounds of french vehicles from Moscow
High Centered That was it I really was searching for it and it just didn't come ( I was writing that while I was working on recovering a development server that ate two of the disks in it's disk array so I was sort of preoccupied _________________ Bob Smart ([email protected])

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:29 am Post subject: Re: Few new walkarounds of french vehicles from Moscow
- bsmart High Centered That was it I really was searching for it and it just didn't come ( I was writing that while I was working on recovering a development server that ate two of the disks in it's disk array so I was sort of preoccupied CRS Syndrome, happens to all of us eventually.

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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:30 am Post subject: Re: Few new walkarounds of french vehicles from Moscow
Added two new walkarounds Dodge WC-63 svsm.org/gallery/wc63 GAZ 410 svsm.org/gallery/gaz-410

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