tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146148016062694502.post3158377100953486695..comments2024-01-05T12:03:52.460-05:00Comments on No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money: Now This Is An Interesting AuctionJohn Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03151468462458613615noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146148016062694502.post-9645643694174765672012-10-27T21:27:16.126-04:002012-10-27T21:27:16.126-04:00Very interesting. It is kind of like a Swiss Schmi...Very interesting. It is kind of like a Swiss Schmidt-Rubin K31 - highly machined with close tolerances which makes it less useful in the dirty, gritty conditions of combat.John Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03151468462458613615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146148016062694502.post-77009796503713977592012-10-26T17:04:05.817-04:002012-10-26T17:04:05.817-04:00After visiting the late Jacques Littlefield's ...After visiting the late Jacques Littlefield's <a href="http://www.mvtf.org/about.html" rel="nofollow">Military Vehicle Technology Foundation</a> in Portola Valley (actually up on about the highest hill around there), and seeing how complicated the Germans made life for their tank crews, I would go for the American half-track! The Panzer-V they have restored has an amazing design and engine but the none of left-side track wheels are interchangeable with the right, and each of the bogies is also is individual from front to back!<br />There is only a 1-inch clearance for the engine inside it's enclosed, armor-resistant case so it has to be hauled by a crane and sent back to the BMW/Maybach plant in Stuttgart to have the valves adjusted. US tank-crews were mechanics and everything could be switched around left to right, front to back...NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.com