From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:54:14 +0200
Subject: Re: AFV Driving was RE: Titanium snails
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AFV Driving was RE: Titanium snails
From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:03:52 -0400
Subject: AFV Driving was RE: Titanium snails
> At 8:10 AM -0700 6/28/02, John Atkinson wrote: The US seems to really favor the T-Bar as a method of control. The M114's have them as well. This fellow has a very nicely restored M114. There are some good photo's of the inside. Scorpions have an odd control arrangement of levers as I recall. The strange thing being that braking force changes based on the gear ratio that you have. They are tricky in turns when you change gears as the turn radius will get larger on you at lower ratios. However, once you get used to that, I've read that they are a dream to drive and are pretty fast for armor. See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/lsm/dhmg/scorpion.html (this of course goes for the entire CVR(T) family: Scorpion/Scimitar/Striker/ Samaritan/Sampson/Spartan) http://www.kithobbyist.com/AFVInteriors/church/church1.html this shows a great view of the drivers position on a Churchill tank. Note the double tiller bar (sort of like the US T bar arrangement) (Hopefully, I'll get some drivers time with one of these at the Alan Cors Tank day event. I've got the uniform kit ready to go) Here's a Centurion AVRE http://www.kithobbyist.com/AFVInteriors/centavre/centavr2.html This has the more traditional levers on either side of the driver and the dual foot pedals/central gear shifter.
From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:12:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: AFV Driving was RE: Titanium snails
> --- Ryan M Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote: > The US seems to really favor the T-Bar as a method It's easy to use and fairly simple. What's not to like? You start screwing around with complex levers and soforth and if you have to crew your tanks with kids fresh from basic training you'll start getting foulups.
From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:37:13 -0400
Subject: Re: AFV Driving was RE: Titanium snails
> At 9:12 AM -0700 6/28/02, John Atkinson wrote: No argument there. However, some times the designers go for something more. Take the Daimler Fluid Coupling and the Epicyclic Preselector Gearbox in my ferret. I'm not certain why Alvis went with what they did in the CVR(T), but they kept the same setup in the Fox (CVR(W)) as was in the Ferret, Daimler Armoured Car and Daimler Dingo.