23/3!

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 03/23/2016 at 18:26 • Filed to: Sd Kfz 233

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Residents of just one country may associate today with one of these:

The rest of us, not so much.

Meet the Sd Kfz 233.

It was a Schwerer Panzerspähwagen or heavy armoured reconnaissance vehicle used by the losing side in WW2. Despite the “schwerer” part of the name it was only lightly armoured and resistant only to small arms so users were advised to avoid contact with anything big and nasty like a tank. In order to be better able to avoid such things it had a driver at each end so a quick getaway could be tried without the possibly fatal delay of having to execute a three point turn..

Power was by a 180 bhp engine by Büssing-NAG who also made the rest of the vehicle. Top speed was said to be 80 kmh/50 mph which is quite quick for something with a rather poor power/weight ratio. All eight wheels were both driven and steered.

After the war Büssing-NAG returned to making trucks and buses and were bought by MAN in 1972.

The German army found the idea of 8WD armoured vehicles much to their liking and still use a similar vehicle, the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! which is made by a consortium one of whose members is MAN so the wheel turns and all that.

ly2v8-Brian > Cé hé sin 03/23/2016 at 18:33

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While not heavily armored it is heavier than their other armored cars, hence schwerer as part of the designation. They did make a variant with the 5cm L60 cannon as a light tank destroyer.

Nauraushaun > Cé hé sin 03/23/2016 at 18:34

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One country? Is it not most of them?

At any rate, we use the d/m/y format in Australia...but in Australia it’s 9:30am on the 24th lol

Cé hé sin > Nauraushaun 03/23/2016 at 18:39

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Nope.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Cé hé sin 03/23/2016 at 18:47

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For data sorting, YYYY/MM/DD has always been the most intuitive.

For casual conversations, DD/MM/YYYY is easy to remember as it’s just backwards.

MM/DD/YYYY is just awkward and I’m not sure why the US sticks to it.

Nauraushaun > Cé hé sin 03/23/2016 at 19:26

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Oh . Oh you called the post 23/3 but the car is 3/23. My bad.

Yeah America has a lot of silly backwards things that the rest of the world has moved on from. The whole imperial system for one.