Re: [MV] powered tandems

At 2:18 PM -0500 8/19/04, everette wrote:[color=blue]
>Many years ago (1950s) it was common (in NE Ark where I lived) to see
>commercial trucks that had drive shaft to front tandem axle and between
>tires on both front and rear tandems was a large pully and a very large "V"
>drive belt on each side between front tandem and rear to power rear tandem.
>
>Did the military ever do anything like this??[/color]

Not quite the same thing but British trucks had=20
chains that could be put on the rear tandems to=20
add traction in mud and soft going.
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