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| Subject: | Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels |  |
| Date: | Jun 4, 2003 |
| From: | Kurt Laughlin | |
"mike foncannon" wrote
> The M4A3(w)75 at the Patton Museum has a partial set of these Convex
roadwheels. I had not run across the type before.
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> Could they be a postwar product manufactured in France or Belgium to
keep their Sherman fleet running after the US supplies dried up? (...or to
stimulate industry under the Marshall Plan?)
It's possible, but I don't think our stuff ever dried up. We were
surplussing Sheman stuff off well into the '50s, while simultaneously giving
them the next generation tanks like the M47. My guess - and it's only a
guess - is that it was a style made later in the war.
> The US put part numbers on everything else, did they stamp the
roadwheels? Where should I look?
You are right, they should be stamped, but I didn't see any numbers. It
might be on a surface hidden by the tire, it might be stamped small, or it
might have been ink stamped. I'd like to get a couple and strip them down.
KL |
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 | Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Kurt Laughlin - Jun 1, 2003 |
| . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - mike foncannon - Jun 3, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Kurt Laughlin - Jun 4, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Mike Canaday - Jun 7, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Kurt Laughlin - Jun 7, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Mike Canaday - Jun 7, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Kurt Laughlin - Jun 7, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Paul Roberts - Jun 9, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Kurt Laughlin - Jun 9, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Mike Canaday - Jun 10, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Kurt Laughlin - Jun 10, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Sherman VVSS convex wheels - Mike Canaday - Jun 10, 2003 |
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