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Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 4550/E/5

The next stage is to insert the torsion bars themselves and it is interesting to note that they are not as heavy as one might expect. This particular bar links with a roadwheel station on the opposite side of the tank.

Here we see the torsion bars all in place. Notice how they alternate left and right, and the way they are anchored in a splined sleeve to hold them as they twist.

Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 4551/B/1

Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 4598/F/2

Now the roadwheels are ready, primer painted and reassembled with their spacer rings in the foreground.

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