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Tim Rigsby

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Hello


  I am currently looking for informtaion on the Holt Three Wheeld Steam Tank, I have two pictures,drawings, and a little information.


Any and all help would be appreciated.


All the Best


Tim R.



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Tim Rigsby

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<img src=" "7 https://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/ww1nut1918/usht-3wheelsteamtank.jpg


I hope this works!!! Here is the Holt Steam Tank I am talking about..


All the Best


Tim R.



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Tim Rigsby

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Well the picture did not come up.


But you can click on the link and it will show you the Picture.


All the Best


Tim R.


 



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Vilkata

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I know I've seen a frontal view of that "tank" someplace... But I cant remember where.

I really like how inevitably, every single country played with the idea of a Big Wheel vehicle. I really really like it, because its SO WEIRD.

The Treffaswagen, for instance, is one of the coolest AFVs simply because it really looks like something out of one of a good Sci-Fi book.

It could have been a mobile ground-attack pod from Starship Troopers!

But yah, I have nothing really to contribute to the 3 Wheel Steam Tank... I just really like the Big Wheels !

People Come Forth! This is an awesome obscure AFV, share your knowledge if you have any!

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theburk

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heh this is acctualy very funny, i e-mailed peter kempf about this tank and he asked me to write an article but i never got around to proof reading it, and i cant remember where i put it, but i will tell you that all i could find was a back view and some degraded other views, it appeared to be at aberdeen, right next to the skeliton tank, there is very little information on it, but once i find that article ill post it.

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theburk

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found it here it is, mind you with plenty of spelling errors.


dear peter,


id love to, i can probably even whip up a sketch or two of it (thats my job, im a concept artist) though the sketch may take me awhile i can write a bit on it right now,


it is nearly impossible to find out anything about this tank, only 1 photo of it exists, and only a handful of sites have any information on it, it was developed in 1918 and was the third american designed tank. the driving wheels are 8 feet in diameter, and have their own power plants, now on some of the sites they say they dont know which end is the front, but on examining this picture:


(this is a slightly grainer version of the one in my book)


http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/UnitedStates/heavytanks/usht-3wheelsteamtank.jpg


it seems obvious that the picture is of the back of the tank, you can see the machinegun ports and the back of a sponson just over the wheel, also the hatch you can see open, isnt open wide enough to be a drivers vision port, and is most likely for ventilation, or maintenence, possibly even for contact to the person running the tanks engine, as you can just barely see a bit of perferated metal over the area near the window. im not sure what that strange round think is on the side but i have a feeling its an engine exhaust, the superstructure appears remarkably similar to the holt gas electric tank, the gun in the picture belongs to it, and is a 75 mm howitzer, though of a different design then that on the gas electric, but it was said to have been mounted low in the front hull possibly the front looked exactly like the front of the gas electric. the rear wheel is devided into 3 sections, just like the rear wheel on the russian tsar tank. another bit of design supporting my idea that we are looking at the rear is that the trench crossing "tail" is quite visible, as to its history, i recall finding a holt steam tractor with a similar configuration, which may have been the basis for this design. it seems that new rims were put around the wheels (which i think are 6 spoked, but it is very hard to tell from this picture) for better traction on mud. one source says that it only traveled about 50 feet before becoming stuck at the aberdeen proving grounds. each of its two cylender steam engines were kerosene fired, with 75 horse power. it had a crew of 6, and 16mm armor. its weight is given as 17 tons, and its speed as 5mph. it like the tsar tank was a very enginuitive but ultimatly useless design.


 


and, i still need to do the sketch, but i can probably whip up a conceptual idea of the front after about a half an hour of experementing.



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