AFV Driving was RE: Titanium snails

At 8:10 AM -0700 6/28/02, John Atkinson wrote:
>--- Michael Brown <mwbrown@sonic.net> wrote:
>>  A "T" bar.	Like steering a bicycle.  On the M-1 the
>>  throttle is on the T-bar
>
>I can vouch for that on the M-48/-60 series stuff.
>T-bar controls how much power goes to each track.
>Gearshift on the floor to the driver's right, plus
>emergency brake and lever to engage the PTO shaft (not
>found on stock tanks without big massive hyd fluid
>tanks to operate tongue).

The US seems to really favor the T-Bar as a method of control. The 
M114's have them as well.

This fellow has a very nicely restored M114. There are some good 
photo's of the inside.

Scorpions have an odd control arrangement of levers as I recall. The 
strange thing being that braking force changes based on the gear 
ratio that you have. They are tricky in turns when you change gears 
as the turn radius will get larger on you at lower ratios. However, 
once you get used to that, I've read that they are a dream to drive 
and are pretty fast for armor.
See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/lsm/dhmg/scorpion.html
(this of course goes for the entire CVR(T) family: 
Scorpion/Scimitar/Striker/ Samaritan/Sampson/Spartan)

http://www.kithobbyist.com/AFVInteriors/church/church1.html
this shows a great view of the drivers position on a Churchill tank.
Note the double tiller bar (sort of like the US T bar arrangement)

(Hopefully, I'll get some drivers time with one of these at the Alan 
Cors Tank day event. I've got the uniform kit ready to go)

Here's a Centurion AVRE
http://www.kithobbyist.com/AFVInteriors/centavre/centavr2.html
This has the more traditional levers on either side of the driver and 
the dual foot pedals/central gear shifter.
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