Tashtego Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I guess if the driver in front is killed, the guy in back can still control this thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statisoris Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Ahh, yes, the rare Kubel-Quad. Testbed prototype for the dual driver concept. It was scrapped after extensive testing showed the second driver was completely useless. :-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pvt. Ryan Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 That's the Kubelwagen Sdkfz 231. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 The thing is that is actually looks like something the innovative Germans would have made... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Its a Strudelschlepper Mk. II 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenris Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 The dual driver concept did have some merit... This vehicle was designed to be a very cheap reccy type, production costs were kept down by making it totally unarmoured. To compensate the vehicle was configured for driver redundancy so that if driver #1 was rendered inoperable driver #2 could take over. Very clever of those Germans engineers. Very clever. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LemoN Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Kübel-8-rad? D: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtstinky Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 My wife would like that.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wodin Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I in particular like the clever helmet design..good to confuse snipers "Is it an Officer or not"..also a great Helmet for the very Junior officer on probation...they thought of everyhting them germans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger33 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Weren't there real half-tracks fielded that had a steering wheel in the back, so the rear gunner (or whatever his job was) could quickly drive them out of trouble if needed? Or did I just dream that up? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Weren't there real half-tracks fielded that had a steering wheel in the back, so the rear gunner (or whatever his job was) could quickly drive them out of trouble if needed? Or did I just dream that up? I don't know of any halftracks specifically that had this feature but there were several German (wheeled) armored cars that had this; they had duplicate driving controls and a rear-facing drivers' seat so that a crewmember could be ready to reverse the vehicle away from trouble quickly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 this of course gave rise to the original term "back seat driver" ~ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 yeah the 231/2/3/4 series of 8 wheelers IIRC. Also the Italians had a Sahariana series that also could be driven in either direction. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuser Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Hehe, they sure had more manpower when things went wrong... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yggdrasill Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 My wife would like that.... ROFL ROFL ROFL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumrox Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Also the Italians had a Sahariana series that also could be driven in either direction. I believe they also had a series of glass bottomed boats in order to review their naval fleet :-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger33 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I don't know of any halftracks specifically that had this feature but there were several German (wheeled) armored cars that had this; they had duplicate driving controls and a rear-facing drivers' seat so that a crewmember could be ready to reverse the vehicle away from trouble quickly. Ah yes, armored cars, that's what I meant. Don't know why my mind went to half-tracks, that wouldn't really make any sense. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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