One35th present the Combat Engineer Tractor - CET photo gallery from CMV page 3

	Photo Gallery 3 Courtesy of Classic Military Vehicle magazine Issue 3 / volume 1 by David Fletcher
	Since CET has its rotating towing hook attached to what is normally regarded as the front, it also has to tow in reverse. Here it is seen during a demonstration at Aldershot with a Giant Viper mine clearing trailer in tow. Giant Viper uses rockets to launch a 275 yards long hose packed with plastic explosive across a minefield. Once it has fallen, the charge is detonated, clearing a 20 ft wide path through anti personnel or anti-tank mines over a distance of around 200 yards by sympathetic detonation. In service, CET could have two of these or one of the big GKN / Sankey twin axis AVRE trailers. Like most modern armored vehicles, CET has an air-conditioning system to regulate the temperature of the crew compartment and filter out nuclear containmination.
	One of the more unexpected fittings, seen here on one of the pilot vehicles at the Mechanization Experimental Establishment in Chertsey, is the special crane attachment that can be erected in the bucket. Powered by the winch cable it can handle payloads up to 4 tons, and its seen here dropping a demonstration load into a Thames Trader. Seven of these prototypes were built, followed by 141 production machines, two other functions, which are not illustrated, include a pusher bar, used when launching pontoons or bridging units into a waterway and a facility to detonate external demolition charges from within the vehicle.
	Once again we see CET proceeding effectively in reverse; the manual gearbox provides four speeds in either direction with a top forward road speed of 32 mph but the reverse ratios reduce the speeds by half which is more suitable for earthmoving tasks. Power is provided by a Rolls-Royce C6TFR turbocharged diesel, a six cylinder in line unit, and Rolls-Royce also manufactures the steering system. In this photograph, the vehicle is again moving with the bucket end leading, and is carrying a roll of steel track way than can be release to unroll by setting off a small charge. CET is capable of handling Class 30 and Class 60 track way which it unrolls by pushing gently with its bucket. Since it weight no more than 18 tons, CET exerts very low ground pressure and can move across ground which other vehicles would bog, and for this reason it would be the obvious unit to lay track way. Like many light weight armored vehicles of this period CET is of welded construction using Aluminum armor developed by the Alcan Company.

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