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〕 | weight = empty loaded | length = | width = | height = | engine = Hercules DFXE | engine_power = | transmission = 4 speed x 3 speed auxiliary | suspension = Beam axles on leaf springs | vehicle_range = | speed = }} The M19 Tank Transporter (US supply catalog designation G159) was a heavy tank transporter system used in World War II and into the 1950s. It consisted of a 12-ton 6x4 M20 Diamond T Model 980 truck and companion 12-wheel M9 trailer. Over 5,000 were produced, and employed by Allied armies throughout all theaters of war. It was superseded in the U.S. military by the M25 Tank Transporter during the war, but usefully redeployed in other tasks. It was superseded by the Thornycroft Antar in British service by the early 1950, though a few remained operational in units through 1971. ==History== Designed as a heavy prime mover for tank transporting, the hard-cab Diamond T 980〔Berndt, Thomas. ''Standard Catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles 1940–1965'' (Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1993), p.123-125.〕 was the product of the Diamond T Company in Chicago. In 1940 the British Purchasing Commission, looking to equip the British Army with a vehicle capable of transporting larger and heavier tanks, approached a number of American truck manufacturers to assess their models. The Diamond T Company had a long history of building rugged, military vehicles for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps and had recently produced a prototype heavy vehicle for the US Army which, with a few slight modifications met British requirements and an initial order for 200 was very quickly filled. The result was the Diamond T 980, a 12-ton hard-cab 6x4 truck. Powered by a Hercules DFXE diesel engine developing and geared very low, it could pull a trailer of up to and proved capable of the task of moving the heaviest tanks then in service.〔Berndt, Thomas. ''Standard Catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles 1940–1965''. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1993. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「M19 Tank Transporter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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