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In 1968, Thurston Warn was named president of Warn Industries, and in the 1970s, the company established a relationship with Ford Motor Company, and began producing hub sets for the automobile manufacturer. Additionally, the company moved to the Portland, Oregon suburb of Clackamas in the '70s. In 1984, Mike Warn became president of Warn ...
In 1950 the next generation of tactical trucks were being developed. Sizes were rationalized, with 1 ⁄ 4 and 3 ⁄ 4-ton 4x4s and 2 + 1 ⁄ 2, 5, and 10-ton 6x6s. Trucks were military standard designs, 6x6 trucks used common cabs and similar fender and hood styles. [14]
In the column "Company" indicates the manufacturer of the truck, in the column "truck" model name is indicated, in the column "image" is a photograph of the model, in the "Type" column indicates the type of model payloads, here is submitted designations such as "chassis for missile launchers units", "tankovoz "pickup"; in the column "years of ...
The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) is an eight-wheel drive, diesel-powered, 10-short-ton (9,100 kg) tactical truck. [2] The M977 HEMTT first entered service in 1982 with the United States Army as a replacement for the M520 Goer , and since that date has remained in production for the U.S. Army and other nations.
The safety of the M939 series of trucks has been criticized, especially braking performance and stability when loaded. In 1999 the U.S. Army began retrofitting anti-lock brake systems to the M939 trucks. [24] Until the trucks were modified, they were limited to a 40 mph (65 km/h) top speed by an Army-wide safety order. [citation needed]
After the U.S. Army purchased its first truck in 1907, of 5-ton payload capacity, [47] in the late summer of 1913, the Army Medical and Quartermaster Corps (QC) took a 3 ⁄ 4-ton QC field-truck, on a 922 mi (1,484 km) multi-leg experimental trek through Alaska for the state's Road Commission—both to try the truck's bad-road supply and ...
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An improved dump truck based on the full length 178 inch wheelbase M45 chassis, designated the M342, was designed to replace both the M47 and the M59, as well as the M135-based M215. Also under the M45 chassis was the signal corps V-17 pole derrick, and the V-18 auger truck, later replaced by the M35 upgrade below.