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Old 12-04-13, 15:02
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Originally Posted by eddy8men View Post
i also thought they could be for a maultier
Could be, according to the tape measure in Radek's pictures the wheel is 7.5 cms wide (roughly 3 inches) - aren't carrier wheels less wide? You should be able to tell us, Rick!

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra View Post
Also, there are engineering differences in track, sprocket and road wheels (see pictures of a surviving Ford V3000S Maultier). Although I have not seen a Maultier in the flesh we did find a Maultier road wheel for sale on one of the stalls at Beltring and noted it was much wider and of entirely different construction than the standard Universal Carrier road wheel - not a surprise when you know Pz.I/II track was used (instead of Carrier track like popular belief has it).
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Here's a nice picture of the bogie wheels & tracks on a Ford Maultier (source). Now, you tell me these are Universal Carrier parts...
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