AltairDraco said:
One incident i was told involved Centurions,as you know Cents did not have pads on their tracks.Well a Berlin highway worker was resetting curb and coble stones on a road,when down the road came a Cent it got to close to the curb and flipped out a few curb stones that had just been reset.Needless to say the worker was not a happy camper.Cant remember what regimental Sqdn. was stationed in Berlin,it may have been one of ours 15th/19th H.
British Cents did have pads (most other nations did not bother), they were in 3 single square blocks per link. The old curb stone trick is routine for most tracked veh's with spud and horn type tracks. Image of Cent ARV below shows classic example of Brit Cent 'Hush Puppy' tracks to be used on roads (never seen any of our versions in Germany without them on - 80's an 90's though):
Used to do it all the time in our Chieftains with their single track pad per link, the GCP and civvy councils must have hated us in the Stapel training area part of the world as we used to wreck the curbs every time we went there - oh and that was 15/19H too!
If memory serves though during the 70's when the last of the Cent gun tanks finally left the ORBAT the normal did travel via naked tracks as most of their road travel would be on the back of a low loader.