CNDTanker 25; I'm not flouting anything. I do not live by Google as my god. I have a very large library of German armor books, nowhere can I find anything on zimmerit being flammable and crews removing it. So your neighbor and/or his crew thinks Zimmerit was flammable and scraped it off their tank. Show me any article where anyone else believed that and doing the same. If it was so flammable, why was it hardened with a blowtorch?
I can show you 86 year olds that can't remember what they ate for breakfast, let alone what they did 60 years ago. I don't know your neighbor, what he did or what he thinks he did. I just find it odd that nobody else seems to know what he knows, that's all. One man's word is fine, where are any others?
In regards to the company Hummel and Fehrmann vehicles, please set me straight, since you know so much more than I do.
The last 54 Tiger Is from the production lines were made using recycled hulls and turrets. Sure they had late model wheels, and looked much like late model vehicles, but they were not. Some had leftover Zimmerit, some never had it at all, but they were all made from recycled hulls and turrets. They might have rolled out of the factory, but this is not production, it is cannibalization.
To quote crockett;
QUOTE: and new late steel roadwheel hulls being fitted with serviceable earlier turrets. |
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Sorry, but this is not true. They were not NEW HULLS.
Neither is this.
QUOTE: The hulls have steel wheels and all the characteristics of the last versions, so one can make a deduction that they are last roll offs needing turrets. |
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They had MANY characteristics of late model vehicles, but they also had leftover bits from their former lives, like the mounting stubs for the fiefel aircleaners, still welded to the hulls, among other things as well.
Pull out your all your Thomas L. Jenzt and look it up if you don't believe me.