Steel Wheel Panthers

[Pirate-Drakk]

Originally Posted by McCoy

No problem mate! There's no such thing as a thread bein' too old to post in. I just stumbled upon it today n' thought that I could provide a little help along the way.

Long live the old threads!!!!

This is just speculation, but I would suspect that there were track wear issues associated with the all/all metal wheels. Metal on metal wear is a serious consideration when dealing with the large forces imposed on the suspension from the high weight of the Panther.

Think of the damage your car tires would do to the road if you had no rubber on the wheel. On a tank, the track is the "road" for the wheels...

I suspect that the 8th wheel had more wear for some design reason and that is why they used the steel wheels there but not all over the tank as the rubber wears much faster.

[Geek44]

Those photos are a great study in 'circle camouflage' and a lack of zimmerit on late Panthers.

[LAH 1 SS]

yes it is geek 44 mate i have posted them before in the german camoflage section i created earlier on they are designated t2 interesting to note the variations in camoflage hard edged on the la gleize panther and the disc type on the later panther very interesting