M135CDN Deuce with tracks

[Robin Craig]

My Dear Lady hollered at me the other night as I was on my usul bimble through the intra web thing.

There was on the telly a program called Northern Classics that is a constant stream of former CBC or NFB type shows which show you very staged views of various places around the country in various places.

We missed the starting but this one showed testing of military vehicles "North of Ottawa" and if my memory is accurate the licence plate on the Deuce was 12744F and was a dark background with a lighter characters on it.

The place, somewhere in the country had military boffin types and vehicles wandering around in the background and the civvy narrator droned on about this experimental track system on the truck and how the Army were trying to make it's trucks better capable.

The system fitted had steel track with a centre guide horn that ran between the duals fitted on the vehicle.

I could see nothing non standard about the wheels and tires mounted and I would assume that they were using the air pressure in the tires to give track tension which is a common way of doing it on many vehicles.

The vehicle was going across some very challenging terrain with considerable ease.

I think there was an adaptation of one of the Scammel recovery vehicles that used an over wheel track kit but that was on single wheels.