Originally Posted by Tanque

Fortunately once we get into the realm of 'what if' models rubber rimmed and steel rimmed applications are perfectly valid.
If the war had dragged on for a year or even 6 months longer I bet dollars to doughnuts we'd have all seen a lot more steel
rimmed everything tank. Hard or not on the tracks the need to field one more tank would have taken priority; the life expectancy of a
new tank was probably a lot less than it's tracks in the last months of the war....

I'm pretty sure I have most of the books everyone else has...

Jerry