Canadian Dry Pin Tracks
Our Canadian Dry Pin tracks sets sell for $27.95 plus
shipping.
Canadian Dry Pin Track Information
The Canadian Dry
Pin track was designed for the M3/M4 based tanks
Canada
developed during World War II.
While the webbed
exterior of these cast manganese steel links bore a very strong
exterior resemblance to the tracks used by the German medium tanks
of the period, the interior pattern was totally different.
Instead of a German
single center guide, the Canadian tracks retained the
US
two guide teeth system.
Also like their German
counterparts, they used a single steel dry pin to connect the links.
A 17 tooth sprocket
was fitted in place of the American pattern sprocket.
These tracks were used
on the Sexton II self propelled gun as well as the Grizzly (M4A1)
tanks.
While it appears that
the British army in particular frequently replaced the Canadian
tracks with various American track patterns, Sexton IIs with
Canadian tracks were still used in the ETO and even seen postwar.
