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| Subject: | Re: M36B1 suspension |  |
| Date: | Mar 25, 2007 |
| From: | Kurt Laughlin | |
Yeah, I do. The raised suspension brackets were already in the pipeline by 3Q43, well before large hatch production began at GBTA. It would have to be a very deeply buried set of brackets to have gone that long without being mounted.
I forgot to mention that your initial question about the R/N was not as obvious as it might appear. The first 600 M7s used hulls pulled from tank production. Somebody never got the word because they ended up with 30- tank numbers instead of the 40- numbers they should've gotten. Two of them are pictured on pp 24 and 24 in Concord Publications #7044, whose title I didn't record, as well as p 523 in Hunnicutt. A couple tracked and semi-tracked vehicles received 60- "special truck" numbers from a clerk or project office underling who didn't realize that trucks have tires, not tracks.
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