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Originally Posted by Ambush
^^^ Sort of. Ground speed will be figured with the track on the drive. Measure from the ground to the top of the track pad and that's the diameter.
Coincidence, but in the early '70's I worked at the GM Diesel Division in London Ontario. We built locomotives and huge Terex dump trucks for mines. Our sister plant built busses and those eclectic GM dual axle diesel pusher motorhomes.
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Interesting indeed. Because of the anti-trust suit against GM back in the late 60's they were forbidden to build certain items in the US for a period of time. So, they build many of the pieces (which was legal) in the US and shipped them to Canada for assembly.
I worked in the area for many years that built the rear ends for the TS-14 and TS-24 Scrapers. The Terex Titan was always a favorite discussion topic with it's 4,800 hp locomotive engine powering a generator driving traction motors on each wheel. Terex Engineering was in the building behind the Hudson, Ohio plant where I worked. They always had some neat stuff going on out there. Sometimes during our lunch we would slip back there to see what new thing they were working on. There was also a test track out there. The 33-09 and 33-11 Trucks were built at the "West Side" which was in Cleveland, Ohio but we built the rears for them in Hudson. One night I got to drive one on the test track. V-16 Detroit Diesel with an Allison automatic transmission. 85 Ton payload. Big truck but nothing like the 350 ton Titan. They were legendary. They never sold the Titans, they only leased them. Some out west in copper mines but most went to British Columbia