Back in the early 60s I was a spec 4 in a signal company. But there were
armor units around and they had air cooled flat 6 cylinder and air cooled
V12 engines that I was told were built by Continental. I think this V12 was
the engine Ort had at Bonneville a couple of times. The Ford is a water
cooled V8. Rich Fox
-----Original Message-----
From: Albaugh, Neil <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
To: 'Nafzger' <nafzger@vtc.net>; ardunbill@webtv.net <ardunbill@webtv.net>;
Richard Fox <v4gr@rcn.com>; land-speed@autox.team.net
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 08:34 AM
Subject: RE: What's Up?
>Back in the very early 60's, I was in a Corporal Missile unit in Germany.
>Our missile transporter was made by LeTorneau (sp?) and it was powered by a
>tank engine which drove AC & DC generators. Motive power was furnished by
>electric motors built inside each of the wheel hubs. The driver controlled
>this thing with a joystick-- the steering was done with electric motors,
>too. Normally it would do about 45mph but unscrewing some resistors in the
>field current supply allowed this monster to reach about 60. It was
>intimidating as hell to have one pass you on a narrow road, especially if
>you were in a VW.
>
>I wonder if that was one of those Ford Ford engines. As I remember, it was
>air- cooled.
>
>Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nafzger [mailto:nafzger@vtc.net]
>Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 8:20 PM
>To: ardunbill@webtv.net; Richard Fox; land-speed@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: What's Up?
>
>
>Rich,
>I went back east in Sept. and one of the things I did was spend some time
>with my favorite uncle who was commander of a tank destroyer battalion in
>WWII. He finished the war in a MK 18 tank destroyer which was powered by
one
>of those Ford motors. He said the earlier ones he had were powered by two
>"Jimmie" diesels and had more power but would not start reliably in those
>cold winters in Europe.
>The Ford gas engine solved that so they would not be sitting ducks under
>attack and couldn't get started.
>Howard
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