RE: What's Up?Neil; I was at Yakima Firing Center while the wall was being
built. Apparently it was felt that the Yakima Indians in the area were in need
of an occupying force during the crises. It must have been a good idea since
everything remained quiet and under control while we were there. Rich Fox
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From: Albaugh, Neil <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
To: 'Richard Fox' <v4gr@rcn.com>; 'Nafzger' <nafzger@vtc.net>;
ardunbill@webtv.net <ardunbill@webtv.net>; land-speed@autox.team.net
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Date: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 09:06 AM
Subject: RE: What's Up?
Rich;
"Continental" sort of rings a bell-- I'll bet that was what it was. BTW, I
was in Babenhausen (near Ashaffenburg) and then in Hanau. Kinda scarey back
then with the Soviets putting up the Wall, wasn't it? We spent lots of time in
the field on alerts and a couple of times we thought we were actually at war.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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From: Richard Fox [mailto:v4gr@rcn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 10:00 AM
To: Albaugh, Neil; 'Nafzger'; ardunbill@webtv.net;
land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: What's Up?
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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