It's bone dry here in MD. They're calling for severe storms tonight. I see the city of Muskegon in your link. We had a lot of Continental engines in military vehicles back in the 1950's & 60's. They even had one in the GM pilot model M1 Tank and Chrysler had the turbine in their pilot model in 1975. I flew up to Detroit to install instrumentation while the power packs were out of the vehicles. It was a wasted trip as they wouldn't allow any instrumentation to be installed. The airline I flew up on went on strike and I had to take a flight to DC then was bused to BWI airport near Baltimore. That was the last time I used my own vehicle to BWI when on travel I used a rental car after that. We knew before starting testing that Chrysler was going to get the contract. The turbine engine company hired a retired full colonel. Here's a pic of the heavy field dynamometer that we used on those vehicles. We ran full load drawbar and cooling tests on both of them using it . For the lower gears we used an M88 recovery vehicle connected to the last trailer with the rear of the M88 facing the rear of the last trailer. We used the forward gears of the 88 when we needed it by running a partial stall. When we ran a stall on both test vehicles we used the brakes on the M88 Recovery vehicle. We also measured full load fuel consumption. The fuel tanker truck had to be closeby when testing. It also had to be closeby when the M1A1 was put into production and fielded to the troops. Sure was nice to have job you loved and be able to work there 41 years at Aberdeen Proving Ground about 12 miles from me. That didn't include the 2 years I spent in the Army during the Korean War and my brother spent 4 years in the Air Force. I was rehired as a returning veteran when I was discharged and spent 6 years in the reserves. Hal
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Today's Featured Article - The 8N and the Fox - by Zane Sherman. Dec. 13 1998, Renfroe, Alabama. Last niht I dreamed about the day that I plowed the field of about 10 acres over on what Jimmy and Dandy called the Ledbetter field. I was driving the 1948 8N Ford tractor that Jimmy bought in 48 new This was prebably in about 1951 and maybe even befor the house was built. This would have made me to be about16 years old and I drove the tractor for nothing and would have paid to drive it if I had had any money which I didn't, but neit
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