?The Tiger had a six-speed, semi-automatic, hydraulically controlled pre-selector gearbox,? Mr Holland told the Today Programme. ?If you put an 18-year-old in that it?s going to break.?
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Bollocks. A properly designed pre-selector box is less likely to break than a conventional box and clutch.
Which is why they were so popular on buses.
There were two versions of the Tiger, Tiger I and Tiger II. Not sure about TI, but TII had 8 forward and 4 reverse gears, so Holland can't be referring to that one. Not sure about the gears on TIs, but Tigers did have transmission problems simply because they were extremely heavy tanks as a consequence of all the armour and the heavy gun that they carried.
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My understanding was that they were both very well made tanks, with typical German thoroughness and attention to detail, and as a result production was slow and complicated, meaning that they just weren't produced fast enough and in sufficient numbers.
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