Don't mind me. Noticed that the .pdf Wheels and Tracks Magazine index seems to have disappeared from the web, so just uploading here. View attachment wheels and tracks index.pdf (.5MB pdf)
Seems the contents list I sometimes used has also disappeared. Often more useful than the Index. Shame to see the Magazine slip into obscurity, so here's the front page headings from W&T in a handy 'Ctrl+F' searchable form. (If anyone gets a burning desire to look at any of these articles then give me a shout.) Issue 1 Canadian Chevrolet C8A - 4X2 Whites - Sinsheim - Four Generations of Bedfords - Keep 'em Rollin' - Maple leaf Jeeps - 12 Ton 8X* New VLTTs Issue 2 8-ton 8X8 T20 series - Water-Rovers - The Patton museum - polish 6X6 Stars - YPR-765 - Cook Bros. Truck Conversions - Canadian Chevrolet C8A Part 2 Issue 3 Parascooters - eastern Front Tractor - Heavy Wreckers M1 & M1A1 - Talbot Military trucks in the 'twenties - Historical AFVs at Saumur Issue 4 from XR311 to Hummer - Canadian Dodge T212 - Relics in Tasmania - London War Museum - The British Goring - Coventry Armoured Cars Issue 5 FWD HAR-Series Trucks - Amplifier Vans - Museum at Dieppe - Ruddington Then & Now - Rally News - Identifile Issue 6 Humber FV1600 Series - Satory IX - War relics In Australia - Before & After - The Tank Museum, Bovington. Issue 7 History Relived in Canada - Ford at War - Auburn Bodied Jeeps - 12 Cylindered 77 Footers - Praga 6 Wheelers - Hetzer Issue 8 D-Day Plus 14,1610 - Desert Chevrolets - Identity Parade - Ford at War Part 2 - Praga V3S Issue 9 SAS Land-Lovers - Normandy 1984 - Early Willys Jeeps - Museum at Cleres - CMP Seminar '84 - Development of the Jeep Issue 10 The De Henriquez Arsenal - Opel Military Cars - Discoveries - Market Garden 1984 - Normandy III Issue 11 A Harley WLA - Treasure-house in France - Bastogne 1984 - Lionheart '84 - Zundapp 1921-1984 Issue 12 OTO Melara's Gorgona - Eight Ton 6X6 - Vintage Tracks - Sd.Kfz.7 turned 7/1 - Collections - the new REME museum Issue 13 The Red Ball Express - International M425/426 - Vintage Tracks II - The Hornsby Tractors Issue 14 Super Heavy wreckers - Alexander's Ford tourer - Wooden Wheels - South African 8-Wheelers - Satory X - Dutch Truckers Day Issue 15 Tetrarch & Alecto - Recovery on the Plain - RAC Centre Open Day - Post-War Vickers Tractors - Oddball Expresses Issue 16 The Simplex Servi-Cycle - Austin 15-CWT Trucks - Vintage Tracks III - The E&L Transport Fleet - Hemispherical Wheels Issue 17 Cranes & Tigers - General Motors Continental - Wooden Bodies - Patton Museum Completed - BAEE '86 Issue 18 Dutch Truckers' Day - T13: Self-Propelled 47mm Gun - General Motors Continental Part 2 - deception on Wheels - Decoys & Dummies Issue 19 Mini & the Moke - Ford of Belgium Part 1 - Hungarian Armour - The Stuart Hybrid Issue 20 The Dodge 6X6 - Marmon-Herrington FF6 - Chaplains on Wheels - The Churchill Flail Issue 21 Chinese Fighting Vehicles - Schwere Wehrmachtschlepper - The Sinai AFV Graveyards - A Dodge Carryall - Ford of belgium Part 2 Issue 22 The Budge Collection - Airborne GMC Trucks - The Palestine Emergency, 1936 - Reforger 87 - satory XI - The unicar Concept Issue 23 Maus Lives! - The Leyland Martian - MVs in Service: Switzerland - Where There's a Will...! Issue 24 Roebling's Alligators - LVT ID Parade - WWII Production of LVTs - Canadian Diamonds Issue 25 The Morris Tilly - Canadian Prototypes - Knox Tractors - BAEE 86 - A7V, First of the Panzers - Uberlandwagen Issue 26 The Ford WOC1 - Liberating Czechoslovakia - Higgins' Swamp Skipper - A Tale of Two Carriers - Red Armour in America Issue 27 Jeep Enclosures - Raupenschlepper OST - MT in the Falklands, WWII - Hungarian Tigers - MVs in Service: canada Issue 28 Normandy 1989 - Dodge Heavy-Duty Trucks - A King & his Jeeps - Martel Issue 29 Morris Quads - RSO Developments - MVs In service: New Zealand - Normandy 1989/II Issue 30 The Wehrmacht's Umbau-Wagen - Jeep Springs - Towed APCs - The Bradley - Romania's pre-1945 MVs - Morris Quad Derivatives Issue 31 Dunkirk 1940 - Willys Quad & MA - Tortoise - GMC CCW-353 Issue 32 Staghound Armoured Cars - Medium Tank M3, Alias Lee - Guy 6X6 & 8X8 - Jeep trailers - Morris Q-series Issue 33 BAEE 90 - Satory 90 - The DAF/Ford Connection - Canadian AT Gun Portee - Argosy Issue 34 CMP Wreckers - East Germany - 1/4 Ton Trailers - Neptune - Nimrod - Some Aussie Specials Issue 35 Humber Hexonaut - Kubinka, USSR - Tempo: from 3-Wheelers to Land-Rovers - Germany's A7V Tank Replica - Some Dutch Specials Issue 36 Building Half-Tracks - Salvage in the Desert - Marmon-Herrington THD-315-6 - The Royal Navy's NACT(X) - Nicholas Straussler Issue 37 Straussler Trucks & Tractors - CMP Assembly Overseas - Schwere minenraumer - Dutch Specials Issue 38 Trucks for Albania & Yugoslavia - Tracked fire Fighters - Hummer Update - Straussler AFVs Issue 39 RAF Road Haulage in North Africa - GMC's M-Series 2 1/2 ton 6X6 - Alvis & Alvis-Straussler - Berliet T12 Tractors - A Tiger Lost & Found Issue 40 OT-810 Semi-track APC - Willys MT-TUG - 6X6 Super jeep - Ford/Marmon-Herrington Snogo - DD Tanks Issue 41 Concrete Armoured Vehicles - India's Ford Wheeled Carriers, NZ Pattern - US Staff Cars in Germany - The New Desert Rats Issue 42 Australian Army Vehicles - German Ford COE Trucks - Aqua-Cheetah - War Spoils in Kuwait - The Medium B Tank Issue 43 Wartime Jeeps for VIPs - The Medium C Tank - American MVs in Australia - Engine Overhaul in WWII Issue 44 From Water Buffalo to Gull - ACF-Brill Military Buses - Malaysia & Singapore - Russian Heavy Tanks - Straussler supplement Issue 45 The Humber Scout Car - Auto Union's DKW Munga - MVs in Service: UNTAC - Mercedes Memories Issue 46 The Canadian Valentine - German MVs in Service 1938-42 - RNBAEE '93 - The Davis 3X2 - Standard Tillies Issue 47 British armoured Command Vehicles - MVs in service: UNPROFOR - Delahaye - Mitchell Cars Issue 48 Dodge T214-WC55: 37mm GMC M6 - Wheels & Tracks of UNPROFOR - The Loyd Carrier - Gulf War Junk - Normandy 1994 Issue 49 International's 2 1/2-ton 6X6 - Loyd Carrier Variants - AC Cars - America's King Tiger Issue 50 Anglo-American Ford Six wheelers - Nuffield bodied Willys MB Jeep - German Umbau-Wagen - The FV300 series Issue 51 Steyr Command Cars - Pedestrian Controlled MVs - Ram, The Canadian Cruiser - Wartime Reminiscences Issue 52 Semi & Full-Track tank Retrievers - Marmon-Herrington Developments - MT in New Zealand, 1930s-50s - Ram Tank variants - Auto Union's 1500A & S Issue 53 Around the world with a GPA - tabby Night-Driving Equipment - sexton SP Guns Issue 54 Diamond T Tank Transporters - M20 Prime Movers in Civvy street - lanchester & The Great War - Czech HET Trailers Issue 55 Special Issue, Surplus & Disposals - US Vehicles of WWII - Canadian Disposals & Returns - The Dutch Inheritance - Holland's Vehicle parks Issue 56 Lanchester, the Second Generation - AEC Armoured command Vehicles - Surplus MVs for UNRRA - Back to the Track Issue 57 The Einheits Diesel - Surplus MVs for UNRRA (2) - FV3800 Series SPGs - A Ram Called Sheep Issue 58 Gun Carrier Machines - The Mercedes G5 - Trackless Tank T13 - Reminiscences Issue 59 The Campbell Villa Armoured Cars - US Army Ammunition Trailers - German MT, WWII & Beyond - MV Events Special Issue 60 Charioteer FV4101 - German AFVs, WWII & Beyond - Guiberson Radial diesels - Reminiscences Issue 61 OM Autocarretta - The Fletcher Flair Prototypes - Japanese War Spoils - Reminiscences (Trieste) Issue 62 British Panthers - Dodge M880/M890 Series - Reminiscences (MoS tank transporters) Issue 63 DAF YA-318 & -328 - The Austin Tilly - The Anglo-Canadian Caplad - Mathis & the VLR86 Issue 64 GMC SWB Dump Trucks - The Bob Semple Tank - Danish Dummy tanks - Recovery Axles Issue 65 Land Rover at 50 - LeTourneau in World War II - The last fighting Panzers (Syria) - Tracked Rapier Issue 66 Early british SP Guns - LeTourneau after 1945 - SFOR Vehicles - Saumur - Reminiscences Issue 67 Western Star - LeTournaeu-Westinghouse & Wabco - Moto Guzzi Mulo Meccanico - The Birch Guns Issue 68 Exercise Ulan Eagle - Tanks, Light T7 to Medium M7 - C8A Prototype - The MVT at 30 - LeTournaeu Supplement Issue 69 Carrying the Lance - Rotatanks & Rotatrailers - The Morris MRA/1 - Exercise Eskimo Issue 70 MOWAG of Switzerland - Jeeps in Wehrmacht Service - Tanks on the Eastern front - The Avenger - Albion 8X8 Tank Hauler Issue 71 GMC Bolster Trucks - The SUMB, alias Simca-marmon - MVs in the Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Issue 72 Early front Drive Scammells - The Wehrmacht m.E.Lkw. - Project Bushranger - Clydesdale Issue 73 German Spoils on the Eastern Front - Tanks from English Electric - UK tank Mission - Eurosatory 2000 - MVs in Service: AFNORTH Issue 74 The Hillman Tilly - Three wheeled Motorcycles - The DAF/GM Connection - Fiat/SPA Combat Trucks Issue 75 Final Issue - Bart vanderveen; A Life with Wheels & tracks.
Hello - I would appreciate if you can give me info on the article in Issue 37 on Schwere Minenraumer - Thanks! Geoff
Hello - I would appreciate if you can give me info on the article in Issue 37 on Schwere Minenraumer - Thanks! Geoff Here it is, and welcome.
I'm researching the Straussler made tanks right now, and a few issues of this magazine could be useful to me. However, it's not available in my country, and there's no optoin for me to look into it. Could someone provide me some scans or photos?
Just re-reading a few W&T articles. Lordy we lost something with the passing of Mr Vanderveen. No current easily accessible MV magazine can hold a candle to what he did there.
Everything has been a comic in comparison since his passing. The only magazine where I have kept every copy.
I'd not seen that. https://www.afterthebattle.com/magazine/wheelsandtracks.html Bodston & I got lucky many Beltrings ago and bought a full set each for c.£50. Best MV publication money I ever spent. I'd quite possibly pay again for Digital versions, as all too often you know there's a paragraph on what you want in there somewhere, but finding it's a nightmare. Fully searchable would be v nice. Maybe hard to Justify potential sales on a Magazine going back to 1983 to people who might not understand what it was. Not that many of the actual articles would be out of date. Just discovered with alarm that issue one is missing here. Hmmm. Phew... found.
No doubt about the Germans making things complicated, heavy mine destroyers. A logistical nightmare that makes a large and obvious target, nice combination
Hello! I'm still looking for the following articles, could you help me too? - Issue 36: Nicholas Straussler - Issue 37: Straussler Trucks & Tractors - Issue 38: Straussler AFVs - Issue 39: Alvis & Alvis-Straussler - Issue 44: Straussler supplement Thanks Karika
Just remembered about the proposed digital version so I googled again and .... it looks as if digital versions of issues 1 to 40 are available at Pocketmags for £4.99. Note the page is linked to from the After the Battle website here: After the Battle - Wheels & Tracks N0te that I have not tried purchasing any yet (but will soon!) Noel
An update on the Pocketmags service - I have now purchased 5 issues. They can only be viewed online through "HTML 5 reader" which I find a little awkward to navigate/read, also I haven't found a useful way of printing/capturing the articles/images - still the great content of course. Noel p.s. they now cost £6.99 each
Having just flicked through the entire run of W&T for the first time in a while; my god we lost something when that ceased publication. Details, oddballs, Fletcher & Vanderveen, trailers, prewar, postwar, solid news on restorations and discoveries, etc. etc. etc. It just makes the whole run of current MV magazines look, well, a bit lightweight & crap really. Hohum. Don't think we'll see it's like for intelligent MV coverage again.
A bit ? The same in the motorcycle world. The old Bob Currie 'Classic Motorcycle' are a continuing source of reference but the recent stuff is just so much verbal diarrhoea written by stupid kids or sad old blokes who could never get their first moped to run properly. On the other hand, me have the internet now...but the bullshit filters have to be working well.
It's that curation thing, isn't it. A gatekeeper like Vanderveen can't be replaced. Knew what was interesting, worthwhile, and/or useful.
