The Heavy-Duty Beast that Remained in the Shadows ▶ The Sterling T26 8x8 V12 Story

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The Heavy-Duty Beast that Remained in the Shadows ▶ The Sterling T26 8x8 V12 Story
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Without a doubt, the great stories of manufacturing highly powerful and capable trucks have been directly or indirectly influenced by the needs of wartime. In times when technology is forced to advance by leaps and bounds, new transportation solutions emerge that leave a mark and even create stories that remain interesting to this day.
Today, we present the story of the Sterling T26 truck, whose innovations and peculiar solutions were never fully realized in demonstrating what it was capable of.
The content of our videos is for entertainment and the information contained is for you to know what is happening on the screen and has some educational value.
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Timeline
00:00 Intro
00:53 Wartime Needs
02:16 Sterling T26
03:17 Unusual Solutions
04:34 A Very Late Appearance
05:34 Conclusion
06:20 Outro

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@fraserhenderson7839 4 ай бұрын

Also known as "Draggin' Wagon". The armor was a late add-on and was deleted pretty quickly as it heavily overloaded the front suspension and sterring parts. The idea was: don't do recoveries under fire... Tamiya produced an amazing model of this super carrier, extreme detail and function.

@brianb-p6586 4 ай бұрын

The M25 was the "Dragon Wagon" (obviously a pun on "draggin'").

@armoredsaint6639 2 ай бұрын

I have the dragon wagon by Tamiya as well! Very cool kit!

@codyfoster7981 2 ай бұрын

Just watch the video to see how stupid your comment is

@CarLos-yi7ne 2 ай бұрын

The M26 had no "add on" armour: the armoured cabin was there from the start of production (1943). Lateron (1944) they switched over to an unarmoured cabin (M26A1) because it was found that the armour was not needed.

@Trucksusa 4 ай бұрын

Love these giant machines!

@josephlannert969 3 ай бұрын

As ex military I can confirm that cutting programs with enormous potential like this is still a reoccurring theme...

@rogueinvestor2375 2 ай бұрын

And the money goes overseas, to so-called allies.

@mottthehoople693 2 ай бұрын

only repugs...remember that at voting time

@ralphllivrah9551 Ай бұрын

Everything has potential

@davidduro974 4 ай бұрын

This Truck Looks so cool with its 8x8 double tyres and complety ahead of its time it Looks like From the 70s or 80s and still modern… the MAN Military Trucks got pretty much the same optic and are great truck too but they came out in the late 70s and this Truck is from 1943 !

@philsalvatore3902 2 ай бұрын

Tatra made the 8x8 truck practical with the model 813

@robertoinsaurralde2494 3 ай бұрын

VERY GOOD

@generaldisarray4146 4 ай бұрын

I actually drive one of these in a game called Snowrunner. Very interesting truck.

@tristanconnolly5675 4 ай бұрын

Nice.

@lewiemcneely9143 2 ай бұрын

Ended up with 6x6, 10-ton tractors and same Draggin Waggon trailers. Favored the G.I. 2 1/2 and 5-ton trucks but bigger. 903 Cummins V-8 with a 5 speed behind it with hi/lo range and an air controlled p.t.o. Garwood winch on each side right behind the cab for pulling tanks from each side up on the trailer. The trailers had extensions at the front with pulleys on top for the dual winch lines to run through so it could load from both side with equal pulling. Engineers had them.

@marcleblanc3602 2 ай бұрын

Merci, intéressant, les jouets des hommes.

@GearTechHD 2 ай бұрын

Merci ! Oui, tout à fait, les jouets ultimes pour les grands. Heureux que vous l'ayez trouvé intéressant !

@karlk6860 4 ай бұрын

Got my answer it was chain driven! thats NUTTS!

@deborahchesser7375 3 ай бұрын

The designer said there was no metal tough enough to make driveshafts out of ? With the Ford GAA Sherman tank motor it made 500 hp and 1100 torque that’s beastly as F especially for 43’

@jethro784 2 ай бұрын

Snowrunner please add

@christopherallen9615 2 ай бұрын

They do obstacle courses in mud runs with these trucks in russia. You guys should look it up it's cool.

@deborahchesser7375 3 ай бұрын

Form follows function and these HD spec built trucks are beautiful. I learned in square fender all steel Mack’s, very spartan and strictly business but redundantly built and ever capable. By the time you hit top gear you needed a break and a samich 😂

@scpvrr 4 ай бұрын

Much better narrator. Thank you.

@celtisafricana4984 4 ай бұрын

But still saying "litters" of fuel!👎🏻

@chriszumsch47 4 ай бұрын

Only 56kmh?? its very fast for such a vehicle at this time!

@jamiebray8532 4 ай бұрын

It wasn't going anywhere in a hurry, now was it?😂 But it's still a beast of a truck.

@V8AmericanMuscleCar 3 ай бұрын

@@jamiebray8532 100 liters per 100 kilometers, it was not exactly the most economical military truck either. 😁

@meltdownshark8812 4 ай бұрын

yay

@ozzy7763 2 ай бұрын

Great video. I had never heard of this vehicle!

@Leonidbuzov1984 4 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍

@jamiebray8532 4 ай бұрын

I would love to find & own a dragon wagon. I hate it when you hear none survived. 😢

@SF-fm9hs 4 ай бұрын

there around. But I've only seen maybe 2or 3 in the past 20 years come up for sale. More are over in Europe.

@brianb-p6586 4 ай бұрын

M25 Dragon Wagons are presumably still around; the T26 is not.

@philsalvatore3902 2 ай бұрын

@@SF-fm9hs You probably saw Tatra 813s or 815s.

@CockadoodleDont 2 ай бұрын

The T26 8x8 is extinct since only a few were built. The M26 dragon wagon is still around I’ve seen a few, plenty of videos of them on KZbin as well

@CockadoodleDont 2 ай бұрын

@@philsalvatore3902There are a few dragon wagons in France

@Siddharth_joshi_Abhivachan 3 ай бұрын

Damn that truck looks monstrous 😍 enemy would loose half a battle if they see this bad boy coming at them growling

@BEHNAZahmadi-pk9ht 4 ай бұрын

Ok .❤❤

@dalekrinke2674 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting. I was working in the arctic in the 1960 s to the late 1970 s. Around 1975 the oil company we were working for brought in a giant sized 8x8 machine called a Dragging Wagon?? Not sure if was this machine ?? They used it for a very short period of time for pulling freight sleighs. Then it disappeared and I never saw it again!

@fooseballs308 4 ай бұрын

There was a machine called a Dragon Wagon but it wasnt 8x8.

@fraserhenderson7839 4 ай бұрын

Draggin' wagon was the first vehicle, the American M25 / M26. It had a lot of unique engineering and excellent self loading and carrying chops. It was engineered for easy maintenance in the field and mechanical redundancy. It used one enormous differential and independent sacrificial drive chains for each rear driving wheel

@brianb-p6586 4 ай бұрын

They were probably applying the military name to an unrelated industrial machine. If it had extremely wide tires, it might have been something like a Rolligon Brute.

@user-hk1yc5gp1j Ай бұрын

Snowrunner please add❤ ‏‪0:52‬‏

@adriantowe278 2 ай бұрын

I love it i want one as soon as I seen it i turned in to a kid going i want one i want one anybody else want one

@najlitarvan921 2 ай бұрын

now i kinda wanna see this in snow runner

@piperp9535 2 ай бұрын

Just wanted to point out that a tank being classified as a Medium tank does not mean that's it's intended role is Infantry Support.

@paulinosantana2490 4 ай бұрын

E verdade

@haidenthomas6002 3 ай бұрын

It looks like something ive built in crossout

@staremmitor7946 3 ай бұрын

My cook dish, allows the🌄 concentration of sunlight to melt a beautiful cave smooth&samitary, anywhere 📻🎶

@fredtedstedman 2 ай бұрын

I think you got the wrong channel !!

@fredtedstedman 2 ай бұрын

.....wrong planet maybe ......

@cesarcardenas3893 2 ай бұрын

👍 solo si sus cadenas delanteras estuvieran totalmente cubiertas y tuviera reductor de fuerza/rueda libre en las ruedas de dirección, hubiera sido una máquina muy fuerte y durable

@Colorado_Native 4 ай бұрын

They had a lieutenant driving. I was expecting a grizzled sergeant.

@karlk6860 4 ай бұрын

If you look at the pics of the axle assemblies on the T26 it sure as heck looks like it was chain driven? Is this a driving chain or is it to run something else?

@jacksmith7726 4 ай бұрын

So you didn't listen to the video then ? Because he says that

@karlk6860 4 ай бұрын

I listened to it and heard it was fully chain driven. Seems an insane way to do it.

@alangordon3283 4 ай бұрын

Try watching it

@CockadoodleDont 2 ай бұрын

The M26 dragon wagon they were using had chain drive for the rear axle. The plan for the T26 was to have the front and rear axles chain driven since they were both double axle in the front and rear on the prototypes. They used sprockets and chain to drive the 2nd axle off of the main driveshaft/gear driven axle.

@brianb-p6586 4 ай бұрын

It's too bad that there are none surviving, so only historical images can be used. It would be interesting to see how the drive gets from the transmission through the bogie pivot to the front axles. The front bogie is shown at 3:25, without the chains and with a bogie-mounted sprocket, but the drive connection between the bogie and the rest of the truck is not apparent. I assume that there was a vertical shaft through the bogie pivot axis. Regardless of the details through the bogie connection, the system was obviously chain final drive, not entirely chain drive.