Sterling experimental variants of Tank Transporter T26 8x8 and T28 6x6

Sterling Tant Transporter COE Sterling Ò28 6x6 1945 Sterling Ò29 6x6 1946 Sterling Ò26 Early Sterling-T26E1 Sterling T26E2 1948 Sterling T26E3 Sterling T26E4 1947
“The T26 was designed to take over from the M26 Dragon Wagon, at a time when the Americans were building super-heavy tanks, capable of taking on the German Tigers,” “One of the problems designer Lieutenant Steve Hodges faced was that the quality of steel available during the Second World War was just not tough enough for conventional gears on a truck this size,” “The solution he came up with was to create a system whereby power was delivered individually to each of the eight wheels, using sprocket and chain for the final drives. So they were reverting to older technology as a way of dealing with wartime constraints.
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