Tracks for Fighting Vehicles

This facsimile edition of the original wartime report on Tracks for Fighting Vehicles is complete and unedited as produced in July 1944 by the School of Tank Technology for tank designers manufacturers and technicians.Starting with the history of tank design this rare report gives a snapshot into wartime knowledge and intelligence including German Italian British American French and Soviet technologies.Across 25 chapters 140 unique technical drawings another 100 explanatory diagrams and graphs 11 photographs and 20 tables this report was intended as an introduction a reference and a textbook. It served the uninitiated with a glossary of terms at the start offered an education to inexperienced designers helped manufacturers to improve and concluded with theory for applied scientists.Historical practical and theoretical from designs to materials from manufacturing to performance from reliability to mobility from tank design to soil mechanics this report takes you to where the tracks hit the ground - in the midst of the Second World War.