military trailers

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by rmgill
The data page I have out of a book shows the 6w7t as having Air over Hydraulic. Much like most Military Trucks today. At least the ones that are in the surplus market and in partial use still.

Ryan,

I see you are refering to the 7 ton light recovery trailer, that is shown in the Canadian Data Book, it would appear that they were built in Canada to AEDB specs and differ in a few ways, presumably to be compatible with vehicles in Canadian service at that time.

The ones often found in UK are British built by Cranes trailers and are 7.5 tons payload, brake systems are as I refered previously. If they were air operated they would not have been able to operate with 3 ton 6x4 B/down Gantry trucks, which have vacuum facilities.

Richard