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Strange last road wheel

Discussion in 'The Tanks of World War 2' started by !ACHTUNG!, Jun 9, 2007.

  1. !ACHTUNG!

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    Do you know anything about this? I heard 18 Panthers of this kind were made by MAN. It was late ausf. G.

    Why only last road wheel was made of steel? I know that there were Panthers with complete set of steel road wheels, but this is different.

    Here are some pictures. Every information i valubale! Thanks! :)
     
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    Usually, this happened when a roadwheel was damaged, and no roadwheels with rubber were available.
     
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    OK, that's something.
    But, as i said, they were produced with this wheel. Steel wheel is smaller then rubber roadwheels. Do you have exact measures of steel and rubber roadwheel (in diametar).

    My thinking is that as the war's end was coming near, germans had very little suplies of that kind of rubber, so they put steel roadwheel instead. But not change every road instead?


    Information about production of these 19 Panthers is not "strong", so it you could be right about wheel changing. And that means that there were no Panthers produced with changed wheel. I don't have any more info about this.

    Thanx! Sorry for my bad English (my name is Borat! :D )
     

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